If the latest predictions prove accurate, Australia’s Olympic team in Paris will set a new high watermark for medals won at the Games.
Australia’s Olympic team in Paris is forecast to be the most productive to leave our shores, with authoritative pre-Games modelling calculating a final haul of 54 medals, including 15 gold.
The Paris bolter is tipped to be the host nation, with Gracenote predicting the French will finish third on the gold-medal tally with a staggering 27 gold, and 60 overall. France won 10 gold medals in Tokyo. The US are forecast to top the medal table for a fourth consecutive Olympics. Australian chef de mission Anna Meares, a former track cyclist who medalled at three consecutive Olympics, said she wished the AOC didn’t have medal targets when she was racing.“I went from my first Games loving trying to win to my last Games fearing what happened when I didn’t,” she said in Paris on Monday. “A lot of that was what you guys were going to write and what those headlines were, and what that failure was going to be perceived as.
The Dolphins are due to arrive in Paris on Wednesday from their training camp in Canet-en-Roussillon on the Mediterranean coast and take their first dip in the Olympic pool, which has been constructed for these Games inside Paris La Defense Arena.
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