Who will win the Olympics? Most medals and most golds?
America are forecast to win essentially the most medals total (112), by fairly a way. Sports activities knowledge agency Gracenote have launched their newest digital medal primarily based on outcomes knowledge from key competitions for the reason that final Olympics in Tokyo
China are predicted to position second on complete medals, however will win 5 fewer golds than the USA. A complete of 86 medals can be three fewer than their tally from Tokyo three 12 months in the past.
Nice Britain are additionally on observe, based on predictions, to provide an analogous medal efficiency degree to the final Olympics, albeit the variety of golds will probably be down from 22 in Tokyo to 17 in Paris..
Whereas France ought to expertise the standard advantageous bounce of being hosts, rising sharply within the medal desk to fourth, and third behind the USA and China on gold meals.
Australia are anticipated to spherical out the highest 5 with 54 medals, essentially the most by the nation for 20 years since Athens 2004.
With athletes from Russia and Belarus banned from competing internationally in nearly all Olympic sports activities since Feb 2022, as a consequence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s more durable to precisely predict how people chosen to compete as Particular person Impartial Athletes at Paris will fare by way of medals. With solely people allowed to compete as neutrals, and never any workforce occasions, medals gained are anticipated to be restricted.
Group GB medal predictions for Paris
Regardless of the smallest cohort of athletes since Beijing in 2008, Group GB are anticipated to medal throughout a wider vary of sports activities than ever earlier than. UK Sport has not, nevertheless, set actual medal targets, arguing that it locations extreme stress on particular person sports activities and athletes.
The British workforce of 327 athletes will once more embrace extra girls than males – 174 to 153 – for an Olympics that may have actual parity within the variety of occasions out there to each women and men for the primary time.
“I’ve by no means been extra assured in our athletes and our cohort of athletes – it’s simply an extremely expertise workforce – [and] that is essentially the most subtle excessive efficiency system on the earth,” mentioned Mark England, the Group GB chef de mission, who particularly highlighted the emergence of youngsters just like the 800m runner Phoebe Gill and skateboarder Sky Brown alongside returning Olympic legends like Adam Peaty and and Tom Daley.
