Team USA expected to win bumper medal haul at Paris Olympics
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With 100 days to go until the start of the Paris Olympics, Team USA is expected to top the medal table once again at this year’s Summer Games.
With 100 days to go until the start of the Paris Olympics, Team USA is expected to top the medal table once again at this year’s Summer Games. According to a virtual Paris Olympics medal table released by Nielsen’s Gracenote, the US is forecast to win 123 medals in Paris – 39 gold, 37 silver and 47 bronze. That’s the same number of golds as the team won in Tokyo three years ago but 10 more medals overall. “If this total is achieved, it will be the best US medal performance since the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics which suffered from boycotts,” Gracenote said in a press release on Wednesday. “The United States team has medals projected in 27 different sports in the Virtual Medal Table, two sports fewer than the country’s own Olympic record of 29 which was set in Tokyo. “Athletics and swimming are still the key to success though with just under half of US medals projected to be won in those two sports.”
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