OlympicsFan

Not sure what the official definition of „star“ is, but here are my hopes for 2028: Potential top 8 in pool swimming: Lukas Märtens (200/400/800 free, 20 back) Arne Schubert (400/800/1500 free, 400 IM) Sven Schwarz (800/1500 free) Oliver Klemet (400/800/1500 free) Johannes Liebmann (800/1500 free) Melvin Imodou (100/200 breast) Lucas Matzerath (100/200 breast) Kaii Winkler (100 free/fly) Luca Armbruster (100 fly) Cedric Büssing (200/400 IM) Isabel Gose (400/800/1500 free) Leonie Märtens (400/800/1500 free) Angelina Köhler (100 fly) Alina Baievych (200 fly) Linda Roth (200 IM) Potential top 8 in athletics: Amanal Petros (Marathon) Simon Batz (Long Jump) Clemens Prüfer (discus throw) Steven Richter (discus throw) Mika Sosna (discus throw) Max Dehning (javelin throw) Merlin Hummel (hammer throw) Amadeus Gräber (decathlon) Leo Neugebauer (decathlon) Olivia Gürth (3000 m SC) Lea Meyer (3000 m SC) Jolanda Kallabis (1500 m/3000 m SC) Mikaelle Assani (long jump) Yemisi Ogunleye (shot put) Nina Ndubuisi (shot put) Curly Brown (discus throw) Milina Wepiwe (discus throw) Mirja Lukas (javelin throw) Sandrina Sprengel (heptathlon) Other athletes that will hopefully make big improvements within the next four years: Moritz Wesemann (Diving) Luca Spiegel (track cycling) Richard Vogel (equestrian) Helen Briem (golf) Helen Kevric (artistic gymnastics) Alexandra Föster (rowing) Anna Janssen (shooting) Annett Kaufmann & Koharu Itagaki (table tennis)

Total: 61 20 20 19 19 17 14 12 11 11 10 9 9 9 8 7 6 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Women: 29 13 11 11 11 9 6 6 6 5 5 5 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Mixed: 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Top 8 finishes: Men: 31 10 9 9 8 7 7 6 6 5 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Germany will be missing three promising athletes/medal contenders (Jana Becker in women’s 800 m, Milina Wepiwe in women’s discus throw and Clara Hegemann in women’s hammer throw). I am most interested to see the performance of the following German athletes: Steven Freund (men’s triple jump) Amadeus Gräber (men’s decathlon) Johanna Martin (women’s 400 m) Jolanda Kallabis (women’s 1500 m) Curly Brown & Nadjela Wepiwe (women’s discus throw) Nova Kienast (women’s hammer throw) Mirja Lukas (women’s javelin throw) Hopefully Martin and Kallabis will be healthy and close to their best.

Will be interesting to see how many of the medalists will go on to medal at the 2028 Olympics. The following athletes from the 2021 edition of the junior world championships medaled in Paris: Tebogo Wanyonyi Alekna Cherotich A bit surprising that only one female athlete, but three male athletes showed such a rapid improvement within the last three years. Normally you would expect female athletes to become world class at an earlier age.

Have to say that I am deeply hurt by the fact that no one seems to care about the discrimination against men in synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics. The Paris Olympics will, first and foremost, be remembered for their support of toxic anti-/non-masculinity.

They should try their luck at athletics, but the U.S. probably wouldn’t like that … Maybe Uzbekistan could naturalize some russian gymnasts/race runners.

I think China shouldn’t be satisfied with the results here. By now they should be ahead of the U.S., given how good they already were in 2008. China is inexistent in a lot of sports with tons of medals (athletics, rowing, judo, track cycling). Number of top 8 finishes in women’s track events (athletics): France: 6 Netherlands: 6 Jamaica: 6 China: 0 Even Japan is lightyears ahead of China in track events. Time of the fastest athlete in women’s 800 m this year: 2:01.88 Time of the 13th fastest athlete in women’s 800 m this year: 2:01.69 Time of the second fastest athlete in women’s 800 m this year: 2:04.46 Time of the 23rd fastest athlete in women’s 800 m this year: 2:04.22 Time of the fastest athlete in women’s 1500 m this year: 4:15.62 Time of the 31st fastest athlete in women’s 1500 m this year: 4:15.50 Time of the 2nd fastest athlete in women’s 1500 m this year: 4:20.83 Time of the 52nd fastest athlete in women’s 1500 m this year: 4:20.67

I think Padar and Jackl could medal in 2028.

Probably isn’t the right thread, but I can recommend the following website with films about past Olympics (in case anybody hasn’t seen them yet): https://olympics.com/de/originalserien/official-films/

Are you actively trying to make the U.S. even less popular or do you just not realize how annoying you are? Even beatmen is less biased than you are.

Mitchell? Please don’t tell me that you are talking about women’s track cycling sprint … Calling her the favorite is like calling Germany the favorite in women’s basketball.

At least Finland is very high up the world happiness ranking, even without Olympic medals.

Objectively the U.S. has more medals because they won more medals …