I didn’t realize that accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers is also into Olympic “crystal ball gazing” but, apparently, it is. The firm foresees China emerging as the overall Olympic champion with one more medal than the United States: China (88) vs. U.S. (87) It also predicted that Russia will drop to third place with 79 medals followed [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Predictions’
Olympic Medal Prediction: China Will Top the Medal Race
China will emerge as the new overall Olympic champion when the final medal tally is counted in Beijing. Says who? Researchers from Sheffield Hallam University who predict that the host nation will win 46 gold medals during the Beijing Olympics. From BBC: “China has set its stall out to become the number one nation in [...]
Meet Our Idol: Nigerian President Umar Musa Yar’Adua
The Olympian Blog has found its political idol. You can now rightfully accuse us of idolatry. Ladies and gentleman, met Nigerian President Umar Musa Yar’Adua, The Olympian Blog’s “Idol Extraordinaire”. Why is he our idol, you ask? Because he directed/charged/ordered Nigeria’s Olympic athletes to win not less that eight gold medals during the Beijing Olympic [...]
Country Report: Mexico’s Beijing Bound Athletes
The infighting among Mexico’s sports officials which we blogged about earlier has not prevented Mexican athletes, 66 of them to date, from qualifying for the Olympics. Mexico is aiming to send 85 athletes to Beijing which would be lower than the 114 athletes who competed during the Athens Olympiad where Mexico bagged four gold medals, [...]
Russian Official Predicts: We’ll Get 30-40 Golds in Beijing
Like the Olympic predictions we’ve been featuring here, we will soon find out in August whether Boris Gryzlov is correct or not. Xinhua: Russian athletes may win 30 to 40 gold medals at the Beijing Olympic Games, Boris Gryzlov, speaker of the State Duma, lower house of the parliament, said on Wednesday. Olympic games has [...]
