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[dave199]

What does everyone think about them?

The issue with their medal picks should be released July 28th, in two weeks.

Usually they are pretty close with the overall medal tallys within 4-5 medal range I think.

Anyways, I'm really looking forward to their special Olympic edition of SI.

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[amuller33]

What does everyone think about them?

The issue with their medal picks should be released July 28th, in two weeks.

Usually they are pretty close with the overall medal tallys within 4-5 medal range I think.

Anyways, I'm really looking forward to their special Olympic edition of SI.

ehhh not terrible impressed with them. Usually they pick the defending world champion or top ranked players. They don't take into consideration recent events or circumstances that will have a major impact. The wife and I have a running contest -- sorta of a fantasy olympics-- and while we use the SI picks as a starting point we usually have to delve a little deeper to finalize our picks...

AJ

[Torchbearer AA]

Netherlands was a big favourite of winning the equesterian jumpring.
Albert Zoer broke his legs last week. He was also the winner of the CHIO in Aachen. Jeroen Dubbeldam is also not going. So we are not a favourite anymore, but in the predictions SI could take two gold medals for our jumping team (individual and team) not taking in to account the recent events.

[micheal_warren]

I am looking forward to the predictions!!! So they should be released on the 28th?

[arwebb]

I think we did better than SI suggested we would in Athens, so I'll be interested to see what they come up with this time around.

[dave199]

Here's a sneak peak at medal predictions for some countries by Sports Illustrated. The National Post here in Canada leaked the picks.

http://network.natio...-14-medals.aspx

Olympics: SI expects Canada to win 15 medals
Posted: July 23, 2008, 6:45 PM by Sarah Millar
Olympics

Sports Illustrated magazine is predicting 15 medals for Canada in its pre-Olympic predictions in this week’s issue.

The magazine has forecast two gold medals, one from newly minted Canadian flag bearer Adam van Koeverden in his men’s kayak 500 metres and from the men’s rowing eights.

Host country China, which is hoping to overtake the United States in medal supremacy, will fall short according to the magazine. The U.S. will once again top the list with 121 medals (45 gold, 44 silver and 32 bronze) with China second at 102 (49 gold, 28 silver and 25 bronze). Both are substantial increases over their actual 2004 medal totals in Athens (the U.S. had 102 and China has 63).

Russia, which claimed 92 medals in 2004, is predicted to drop to 75 (25 gold, 28 silver and 22 bronze).

Canada’s expected outcome is the one more than in 2004, in which 14 were forecast but only 12 were won.

Here’s a look at which Canadians made SI’s list:

Athlete Sport Medal
Thomas Hall Men's Canoe Singles 1000-metres Silver
Adam van Koeverden Men's Kayak Singles, 500-metres Gold
van Koeverden Men's Kayak Singles 1,000-metres Silver
Marie-Helene Premont Women's Cycling, Mountain Biking Silver
Eric Lamaze Equestrian, Individual Jumping Bronze
Canada Equestrian, Team Jumping Bronze
Karen Cockburn Women's Trampoline Bronze
Calder & Frandsen Rowing Pairs, Without Cox Bronze
Canada Rowing, Men's Eights Gold
Canada Women's Rowing, Eights Bronze
Sébastien Michaud Men's Taekwondo (80 kg) Bronze
Ivett Gonda Women's Taekwondo (49 kg) Bronze
Karine Sergerie Women's Taekwondo (67kg) Silver
Carol Huynh Women's Wrestling Freestyle (48kg) Bronze
Tonya Verbeek Women's Wrestling Freestyle (55kg) Bronze

According to the predictions, Canadians will not bring home any medals from swimming, diving or track and field. Noticeably absent from the list is Alexandre Despatie, who won a silver medal in the men's three-metre diving, and was predicted by Sports Illustrated to win two medals at the Athens Games.

[Torchbearer AA]

Here's a sneak peak at medal predictions for some countries by Sports Illustrated. The National Post here in Canada leaked the picks.

http://network.natio...-14-medals.aspx

Host country China, which is hoping to overtake the United States in medal supremacy, will fall short according to the magazine. The U.S. will once again top the list with 121 medals (45 gold, 44 silver and 32 bronze) with China second at 102 (49 gold, 28 silver and 25 bronze). Both are substantial increases over their actual 2004 medal totals in Athens (the U.S. had 102 and China has 63).

So China will be number one according to SI (because in most countries it's still the country with most gold medals who is the number one).

[dave199]

They're predicting China to win the most Golds

[dave199]

So China will be number one according to SI (because in most countries it's still the country with most gold medals who is the number one).

Yeah, you posted this comment before I got the chance when I just wrote they predict them to win the most gold..lol....It's a substantial increase for China. Let's see if they live up to this hype or they buckle under the home country pressure to perform.