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Them people at the Associated Press have much bigger balls than economist Daniel Johnson and his team. Why? Because they not only predicted the number of medals that a national team will harvest in Vancouver, they are also predicting the individual medalists (see below). If that is not chutzpah, we don’t know what is.

But just because we are saying these AP guys and gals have big balls does not mean that we will not be mocking them if any of their predictions do not come true. After all, these kinds of very precise predictions are invitations for mockery, eh?

Anyhoo, here’s our prediction for the Vancouver Games: We predict that there will be more American crybabies. Wanna bet?

Associated Press Individual Winner Predictions

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Canada’s hometown advantage will help it win the most medals in the upcoming Vancouver 2010 Winter Games. Well, that’s not surprising really, all Olympic host nations benefit from a home-field advantage.

Anyhoo, here’s a prediction by economist Daniel Johnson and his team on how the top national Olympic teams will fare in the medal race.

The Vancouver Winter Games is still a year away but let’s start featuring some athletes who are expected to do well in their respective fields.

Olympic fans, meet Canadian hockey player Cherie Piper. Cherie joined the National Team in 2001 and has helped the team win a World Championship Gold medal in 2004 and Olympic gold medals in 2002 and 2006.

Awesome, eh?

This is just a test to see whether this certain plug-in we are trying out here at The Olympian Blog is going to work. Hopefully it will. Verdict later. Haha.

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Here’s the theme song of the Beijing Paralympic Games. It is guaranteed to make you cry but it should also inspire you to overcome whatever adversities you are facing. The video features popular Chinese singer Andy Lau who also composed and recorded the song. Everyone is number one indeed.