I’ll dig into the 2014 projections soon. In the meantime, Philip Hersh offers best-case and worst-case scenarios for the USA in Sochi: We predict U.S. medal hopes for 2014 Olympics – chicagotribune.com.
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2014 medal projections: Snowboarding
by Beau Dure • • 1 Comment
We’ve had a World Championship. We’ve had one of the multitude of X Games. We’re ready to do some medal projections … HALFPIPE Men Gold: Shaun White (USA). Two-time defending champion, six straight X Games Aspen titles … yeah, he’s the…
2016 medal projections: Men’s handball
by Beau Dure • • 1 Comment
Never too soon, right? Spain was the runaway winner in the just-concluded World Championship, beating Denmark 35-19 in the final. They lost a group-stage game to eventual third-place finisher Croatia but otherwise won with ease. Two reasons not to anoint…
London 2012: Adjust the medal count already?
by Beau Dure • • 1 Comment
So I posted the final medal tally alongside the projections, put the final spreadsheet out for the world to see, and then … Olympian stripped of gold by IOC for doping – USATODAY.com. Dang it. Pardon me for a second…
2012 medal projection redux: What we learned
by Beau Dure • • 6 Comments
Update: This is now adjusted to reflect our first doping case: Belarus loses gold, New Zealand up to gold, Russia up to silver, China up to bronze. That’s one more medal for China. When we started, I said I thought the…
The China-USA medal count battle and Olympic projections: Don’t panic!
by Beau Dure • • 15 Comments
You may have noticed that China is leading the USA in the medal count through 200 of 302 events. The total numbers* are: China 73 USA 70 So you may then look at the various medal projections and say, “Gee,…
2012 medal projections: The mega-meta comparison
by Beau Dure • • 17 Comments
SportsMyriad.com has completed an exhaustive review of the 2012 Olympic events and come up with the following medal projections: USA 113, Russia 85, China 84, Britain 78, Germany 52. How does this compare to other projections? Glad you asked ……
2012 medal projection update: Wrestling
by Beau Dure • • 3 Comments
Plenty of information sources here. USA Wrestling’s site, The Mat, takes the same approach to wrestling that the big pro sports’ sites take to their sports — they’re the clearinghouse of news and features going well beyond the standard federation…