OG Predictions (Men) -- "T&F News"

[Historian]

Source: Track & Field News
http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/dis...e.php?id=24458

T&FN Predictions: Olympic Men's Medals

Predicted men's medals in Beijing; best data known to us by July 25:
100 METERS
G — Usain Bolt (Jamaica)
S — Asafa Powell (Jamaica)
B — Tyson Gay (US)

200 METERS
G — Usain Bolt (Jamaica)
S — Walter Dix (US)
B — Shawn Crawford (US)

400 METERS
G — Jeremy Wariner (US)
S — LaShawn Merritt (US)
B — Tyler Christopher (Canada)

800 METERS
G — Abubaker Kaki (Sudan)
S — Yeiman López (Cuba)
B — Yuriy Borzakovskiy (Russia)

1500 METERS
G — Bernard Lagat (US)
S — Rashid Ramzi (Bahrain)
B — Augustine Choge (Kenya)

STEEPLE
G — Ezekiel Kemboi (Kenya)
S — Richard Matelong (Kenya)
B — Brimin Kipruto (Kenya)

5000 METERS
G — Kenenisa Bekele (Ethiopia)
S — Bernard Lagat (US)
B — Sileshi Sihine (Ethiopia)
(and do we really believe Bekele will double back?)

10,000 METERS
G — Kenenisa Bekele (Ethiopia)
S — Sileshi Sihine (Ethiopia)
B — Martin Mathathi (Kenya)

110 HURDLES
G — Dayron Robles (Cuba)
S — Xiang Liu (China)
B — David Oliver (US)

400 HURDLES
G — Kerron Clement (US)
S — Bershawn Jackson (US)
B — LJ van Zyl (South Africa)

MARATHON
G — Samuel Wanjiru (Kenya)
S — Martin Lel (Kenya)
B — Abderrahim Goumri (Morocco)

20K WALK
G — Jefferson Pérez (Ecuador)
S — Francisco Fernández (Spain)
B — Yohan Diniz (France)

50K WALK
G — Vladimir Kanaykin (Russia)
S — Alex Schwazer (Italy)
B — Denis Nizhegorodov (Russia)

4 x 100 Relay
G — Jamaica
S — United States
B — Great Britain

4 x 400 Relay
G — United States
S — Bahamas
B — Jamaica

HIGH JUMP
G — Stefan Holm (Sweden)
S — Yaroslav Rybakov (Russia)
B — Andrey Tereshin (Russia)

POLE VAULT
G — Brad Walker (US)
S — Yevgeniy Lukyanenko (Russia)
B — Steve Hooker (Australia)

LONG JUMP
G — Irving Saladino (Panama)
S — Loúis Tsátoumas (Greece)
B — Ibrahin Camejo (Cuba)

TRIPLE JUMP
G — Phillips Idowu (Great Britain)
S — Nelson Évora (Portugal)
B — Aarik Wilson (US)

SHOT
G — Reese Hoffa (US)
S — Adam Nelson (US)
B — Christian Cantwell (US)

DISCUS
G — Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania)
S — Gerd Kanter (Estonia)
B — Ehsan Hadadi (Iran)

HAMMER
G — Ivan Tikhon (Belarus)
S — Primož Kozmus (Slovenia)
B — Koji Murofushi (Japan)

JAVELIN
G — Tero Pitkämäki (Finland)
S — Andreas Thorkildsen (Norway)
B — Vadims Vasiļevskis (Latvia)

DECATHLON
G — Bryan Clay (US)
S — Andrey Kravchenko (Belarus)
B — Dmitriy Karpov (Kazakhstan)


© Track & Field News 2008

[Mosiah]

Maurice Smith is medalling in the decathlon so dem need fi fix dah part deh. I concur with the other predictions.

[Willi]

Maurice Smith is medalling in the decathlon so dem need fi fix dah part deh. I concur with the other predictions.

What about Chris Brown the Bahamian in the 400m? The bronze is his to lose and only our bwoy Chambers can deny him.

[Mosiah]

True. Brown for Bronze and of course, a small change in the 100m final. heh heh!

[Karl]

Looks good!

[Peter R]

I'll celebrate after the finals. I'm still disappointed from the last Olympic 100m.

[Historian]

Good Point, Peter R

I’m not into the predictions game, as anything can happen in the finals! And we have countless examples of this, from Derrick Atkins unexpectedly winning the silver in the 100-meter last year in Osaka to the even more shocking Justin Gatlin winning of the 100-meter back in 2004 in Athens! Prior to the finals, nobody at all was seriously discussing Gatlin among the medalists!

The best thing is to read Track & Field News’ predictions and then quickly put those predictions out of our mind! For example, I’m not prepared to jump up and give Tyson Gay a mere bronze medal in the 100-meter! And I’m not dissing Asafa by saying this.

Also, Canada’s 400-meter man Tyler Christopher has always been, in my opinion, treated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in a way similar to NBC’s treatment of Allyson Felix. Christopher Brown of the Bahamas, surely, has to be a more likely contender for the bronze than Tyler Christopher!

Don’t start breaking those champagne bottles as yet in expectation of an inevitable victory by Jeremy Wariner in the 400. LaShawn Merritt has already defeated him twice this year (if my memory is correct here). Wariner in 2008 so far just doesn’t seem to me to be the same as last year and the year before.

In the relays, I’ve yet to be convinced that Jamaica’s 4x400-meter men will win any sort of medals. And they won’t have Bolt to assist them!