The opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will be held tomorrow, and some of the current events have started, the Chinese team has made a good start, in the first round of the curling mixed doubles competition, China's Ling Zhi and Fan Suyuan narrowly defeated the last runner-up Swiss team combination with a score of 7-6, which is also a good start for the Chinese team.
As the host, what kind of results the Chinese team will achieve is concerned, and in the whole event, who can win the top position in the medal table? This is the explanation that media fans around the world are looking forward to, and the famous sports data company Gracenote gave a prediction, which used big data to conclude that norway is likely to top the gold medal list.
According to Gracenote's prediction, this Winter Olympics, as a strong country in ice and snow sports, Norway can get 21 gold, 13 silver, 10 bronze results, this data will be far ahead of the second ranked German team, the latter is 11 gold, 11 silver and 8 bronze data, the third place will be the Russian Olympic team, 10 gold, 12 silver and 8 bronze data.
What are the projections of China and the United States, the two most high-profile powers? According to Gracenote's predictions, the U.S. team is expected to win 7 gold, 7 silver and 8 bronze medals, ranking 4th, followed by Canada, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden, France, and Japan.
How many Chinese teams are in line? The Chinese team ranked 12th, with a result of 6 gold, 2 silver and 5 bronze, a total of 13 medals. At this Winter Olympics, the Chinese team has the hope of winning gold in traditional advantages such as short track speed skating, freestyle skiing aerial skills, figure skating pair skating, etc., and at the same time, through naturalization, it also has gold points in the freestyle ski U-shaped field, big jump and slope obstacle courses.
Of course, this is just Gracenote's prediction, the media also said that because of the impact of the epidemic, some of the champions are likely to be unable to participate in the competition, which will also make the medal competition become unpredictable, but the general ranking will not change, after all, the ice and snow project, there are only a few strong countries.
At the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Norway ranked first with 14 gold, 14 silver and 11 bronze, Germany ranked second with 14 gold, 10 silver and 7 bronze, Canada ranked 11 gold, the United States 9 gold, and the Chinese team ranked 16th with 1 gold.