Original title: Perhaps the “hardest to guess” Olympic Games-A preview of the Tokyo Olympic medal list
After several twists and turns, the Tokyo Olympics is finally about to usher in the opening moment. Due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, global sports events have received a considerable impact. Under such shock waves, athletes all over the world are facing the readjustment of training and competition rules, and the challenges are very severe.
International events have been cancelled on a large scale, and athletes are unable to prepare as usual. Under such a general background, it is quite difficult to predict the medal standings of this Olympics.
This is the main stadium of the Tokyo Olympic Games taken at the Japan Olympic Committee Building on July 12. At 8 pm on the 23rd, the Olympic Games, which will be postponed for one year, will open here.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Hua Yi
At the 100-day countdown to the opening of the Tokyo Olympics, the sports data company Gracenote released its forecast for the Olympic medal list. On this list, the United States continues to top the list with 43 gold medals and 114 medals, China ranks second with 38 gold medals and 85 medals, and the host Japan will receive 34 gold medals and 59 medals.
The company said in the forecast report: “Due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the Tokyo Olympics may become the most unpredictable Olympic Games. This report is generally based on the performance of athletes after the 2016 Olympics, but because of the epidemic, these data are referenced. The value is also lower than usual.”
On the whole, as a traditional power in the international sports arena, the United States is still strong. On the 13th, the US delegation announced the list of 613 people participating in the Tokyo Olympics. This scale of participation was second only to the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, which was the United States‘ home game, and became the second largest US delegation in the history of the Olympic Games. In this lineup, 193 people have previous Olympic experience, including Felix (track and field), Schmidt (swimming), Ledki (swimming) and other famous players. In addition to continuing to be strong in traditional athletics, swimming and other events, the United States also has strong strength in gymnastics, cycling, fencing, tennis and other events. In addition, the American men’s basketball team has also formed a set that has attracted much attention. A strong formation with American basketball stars such as Durant and Lillard has launched an impact towards the goal of winning the Olympic championship for the fourth time in a row. Not surprisingly, the United States still has the most hope of winning the top spot on the medal table.
Data map: On July 23, 2017, American player Katie Ledki broke the tournament record with a time of 3:59.06 in the preliminaries of the 17th FINA World Swimming Championships Women’s 400m Freestyle in Budapest, Hungary. , And advance to the final.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ding Xu
The Chinese delegation dispatched a total of 777 people this time, marking the largest overseas participation in the Olympic Games by a Chinese sports delegation. The 431 athletes in the Chinese delegation will participate in 30 major events, 41 sub-sports and 228 sub-sports competitions. Diving, weightlifting, table tennis, badminton, shooting, and gymnastics are the traditional advantages of the Chinese Army in the Olympic Games. At present, the “Six Aces” generally maintain a high level. They are still the Chinese Army in the Tokyo Olympics. The backbone of gold and silver. In addition, in athletics, swimming, taekwondo, fencing, water and other submarine superior events, the performance of athletes is also crucial to the medal standings.
On July 14, the working meeting of the Chinese sports delegation for the Tokyo Olympic Games was held in the State Sports General Administration.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Tao Xiyi
The Japanese Olympic Committee announced the establishment of the largest Olympic delegation in Japanese history consisting of 582 athletes. As the host, Japan originally planned to win 30 gold medals in the Tokyo Olympics, which will surpass the best Olympic record of 16 gold medals before. The Japanese delegation won 16 gold medals at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the 2004 Athens Olympics. In the last Rio Olympics, they won 12 gold medals.
Although the gold medal expectations were lowered before the opening of the Olympics, the Japanese team is the main competitor of the Chinese team in some events including table tennis and badminton. The new mixed doubles for table tennis at the Olympic Games will result in the first gold medal in table tennis, and each association can only send one pair to participate. In terms of mentality, it may have an important impact on the next Olympic journey of each team. Hayabusa Mizutani/Mima Ito is a big rival of the national table tennis mixed doubles Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen. In addition, Mima Ito and Mima Ito, who have grown rapidly in recent years, will challenge the Chinese team in singles events. In badminton, the Japanese women’s doubles team has risen strongly in recent years, and Reika Takahashi/Matsumo Matsumoto won the first Olympic gold in Rio Japan badminton. After Reika Takahashi retired, Yuki Fukushima/Ayaka Hirota and Mayu Matsumoto/Wakana Nagahara assumed the task of holding the gold medal for the Japanese women’s doubles.
The new Olympic events are also the “bonanza” of Japan’s competition for gold medals. Among the five new events including skateboarding, surfing, rock climbing, baseball and softball and karate, karate and baseball and softball are Japan’s strong events.
Data map: March 14th,Mima Ito defeated Singapore’s Feng Tianwei 4-1 in the women’s singles final of the 2021 World Table Tennis Professional League (WTT) Middle East Championship in Doha, the capital of Qatar, and won the championship. Published by Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Niku)
The Russian Olympic Committee confirmed a list of 335 athletes at the end of June. President of the Russian Olympic Committee Poznyakov revealed that there are 50 more people than the Rio Olympics. He also hopes to improve his ranking on the basis of the fourth in the medal list of the previous Olympics. According to the ruling of the International Sports Arbitration Tribunal at the end of last year, Russia is not allowed to participate in international sports competitions in the next two years, including the Tokyo Olympics, in the name of the country, but individual Russian athletes can still participate in these competitions as Russian athletes.
Compared with the previous Olympic Games, Britain’s strength has declined. The lineup based on the main players of the 2012 London Olympics has been aging to a certain extent, but its background is still deep.
Due to the outstanding performance of Dutch athletes in cycling, sailing and windsurfing in recent years, the Netherlands has become an emerging force worthy of attention in this Olympics. Germany, France and Italy were among the top ten medals in the previous Olympics. The traditional strong teams also have their own advantageous projects, and no surprises will still occupy the top ten positions in the medal table.
According to the Australian Olympic Committee, there are 488 athletes in the Australian delegation for the Tokyo Olympics. The size of the delegation ranks second in the country’s Olympic history. The head of the delegation, Ian Chesterman, said that this Olympic Games will be a special one in their sports career for the athletes. To help them decompress and prepare for battle, the delegation does not set a medal goal.
In general, the delegations of this Olympic Games are very low-key about their participation goals, which also brings considerable difficulty to the prediction of the medal table. However, from another point of view, uncertainty is also part of the charm of sports games, and “the hardest to guess” is not necessarily “not exciting.”
For the Tokyo Olympics, a crowd of heroes competes, and a big drama is about to be staged. (Reporters Lin Deren, Su Bin, Ma Kai)
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