Paris Olympic Medals Headed In Big Numbers To United States And China In One Forecast – News18

The United States is predicted to high the medals tables — each the general depend and gold-medal depend — for the 2024 Paris Olympics, in response to one forecast launched Friday, six months earlier than the Games open on July 26.

The forecast comes from Nielsen’s Gracenote Sports, which provides statistical evaluation for sports activities leagues around the globe. It additionally tracks main competitions involving Olympic sports activities main as much as the Games.

Forecasting is especially troublesome this time with most Russian and Belarussian athletes prone to be excluded due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine virtually two years in the past. Some will likely be allowed to compete underneath a call introduced late final 12 months by the International Olympic Committee.

“Almost all Russian and Belarussian competitors have been absent from international competitions since February 2022,” Simon Gleave, head of study for Gracenote, advised The Associated Press. “Any who take part in Paris 2024” will make predicting troublesome.

Gracenote predicts the United States will win 37 gold medals and 129 total. China is a detailed second with 35 gold, however far behind within the total complete of 85. The subsequent eight with predicted gold and total medals are: Britain (17-64), Japan (17-56), France (26-53), Australia (15-48), Italy (13-47), Germany (10-39), the Netherlands (16-35) and South Korea (7-23).

For Tokyo in 2021, Gracenote named the highest-10 medal profitable international locations, however not in good order. In Beijing 2022, Gracenote named the highest 5 international locations, however not in good order, and eight of the highest 10. It additionally predicted accurately that Norway would break the file for probably the most medals received at a single Winter Olympics.

It will likely be as much as dozens of governing our bodies to evaluate and implement impartial standing for particular person Russian and Belarussian athletes. They should determine which athletes haven’t actively supported the struggle and usually are not contracted to navy or state safety companies.

Russia despatched 335 athletes to the Tokyo Olympics held in 2021 — profitable 20 golds amongst 71 complete medals — however solely dozens are prone to compete in Paris as people. Russia stays banned from staff sports activities.

Athletes and officers from Ukraine, together with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, have repeatedly urged the IOC to expel Russia and Belarus fully from the Olympics due to the struggle Russia began.

The hardest stance on Russian athletes has been taken by World Athletics, which has excluded them from worldwide competitions because the invasion began in February 2022.

Paris is the fifth straight Olympics by which Russia and its athletes have confronted calls to be banned following the steroid-tainted 2014 Sochi Winter Games. This was Thomas Bach’s first as IOC president. In Paris, Russian and Belarusian athletes who’re eligible will compete as Individual Neutral Athletes — utilizing the French acronym AIN.

The IOC and Bach additionally urged excluding Russia from sports activities when the struggle began days after the closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Games, then eased their place by final 12 months as qualifying occasions for Paris approached.

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AP Paris Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games

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