Olympic Prediction #1 - Medaling countries

[PeterGustafsson]

Hi!


How many different countries will get a medal in the fencing events of the Beijing Olympic games?

Better yet, can you predict which ones?


Have a nice time!

Peter Gustafsson

[edew]

MFI:

Gold: Italy
Silver: Germany
Bronze: Poland

MSI:

Gold: Hungary
Silver: China
Bronze: Belarus

MEI:

Gold: China
Silver: France
Bronze: Russia

WFI:

Gold: Italy
Silver: Korea
Bronze: Italy

WSI:

Gold: USA
Silver: China
Bronze: USA

WEI:

Gold: Hungary
Silver: France
Bronze: Canada

MST: China, France, USA
MET: France, Spain, China
WFT: Italy, China, Poland(?)
WST: USA, China, Russia

(Does Poland even have a WFT?)

[erooMynohtnA]

Gold: Germany, Joppich
Silver: Italy, Baldini
Bronze: China, Lei

MSI:

Gold: Italy, Tarantino
Silver: Russia, Dumitrescu
Bronze: Germany, Lumbach

MEI:

Gold: France, Jeannet
Silver: USA, Kelsey
Bronze: Korea, Jung

WFI:

Gold: Italy, Vezzali
Silver: Italy, Granbassi
Bronze: Korea, Nam

WSI:

Gold: China, Xue
Silver: USA, Jacobson
Bronze: USA, Ward

WEI:

Gold: China, Na
Silver: Germany, Duplitzer
Bronze: Canada, Schalm

MST: France, Hungary, Russia
MET: France, Poland, Hungary
WFT: Russia, Hungary, Poland
WST: USA, France, China

I like Eric's format a lot. Poland has a team, they're #2 on the list.

[Mr.MightyMouse]

MSI:[INDENT]Gold: Hungary
Silver: China

Szilagyi, Decsi ???????????


MST: China, France, USA

Surely you must jest?

MET: France, Spain, China

did Spain get an underground passage ticket to Beijing?

WFT: Italy, China, Poland(?)



(Does Poland even have a WFT?)

yes - quite a good one

Where, where but here have Pride and Truth,
That long to give themselves for wage,
To shake their wicked sides at youth
Restraining reckless middle-age?

W.B.Yeats

[piste off]

Gold: France, Jeannet

Ok, you tricky devil... which one?

R-

[fencein2012USA]

The USA MST will not medal. Arent they fencing Hungary first?

[JEC]

Let's get going:

Individual Events: Gold/Silver/Bronze
Women's Saber: USA, USA, USA
Men's Epee: ITA, FRA, ESP

[KD5MDK]

Women's Foil: ITA, KOR, ITA.

[nahouw]

The USA MST will not medal. Arent they fencing Hungary first?

Didn't they fence them and beat them in 2004?

[JEC]

Half way through individual events, the count is 5. Thus far, we have multiple medals by the same country in 2 out 3 events. Don't forget that Team events will have 3 different countries per event.

[KD5MDK]

Actually, Mariel will be representing Notre Dame*, Sada will be representing the United States and Becca will be representing Oregon**. I expect a sweep.

Kelley Hurley will be representing A Fencing.Net Meme. Her country code will change to FDN for the team event.



* They totally act like they're their own country in NCAA football
** Puerto Rico gets an Olympic Team...

[PeterGustafsson]

Hi!

Final Tally:

COUNTRY GOLD SILVER BRONZE
France 2 2 0
Italy 2 0 5
Germany 2 0 0
USA 1 3 2
China 1 1 0
Russia 1 0 0
Ukraine 1 0 0
Romania 0 1 1
Japan 0 1 0
Poland 0 1 0
S. Korea 0 1 0
Hungary 0 0 1
Spain 0 0 1

Had to edit a little to get away that idiotic sorting by total# of medals

Anyway, 13 countries medaled. USA better than China, but not so much that it matters in the total medal count, since China is far ahead in golds. (Now, USA is leading the pack by a big margin in Bronzes - that is why NBC is talking up the total#medals metric.)


Have a nice time!

Peter Gustafsson

[PeterGustafsson]

Hi!

Final Tally:

COUNTRY GOLD SILVER BRONZE
France 2 2 0
Italy 2 0 5
Germany 2 0 0
USA 1 3 2
China 1 1 0
Russia 1 0 0
Ukraine 1 0 0
Romania 0 1 1
Japan 0 1 0
Poland 0 1 0
S. Korea 0 1 0
Hungary 0 0 1
Spain 0 0 1

Had to edit a little to get away that idiotic sorting by total# of medals

Anyway, 13 countries medaled. USA better than China, but not so much that it matters in the total medal count, since China is far ahead in golds. (Now, USA is leading the pack by a big margin in Bronzes - that is why NBC is talking up the total#medals metric.)

Nobody guessed right, but edew, erooMynohtnA, JEC were the closest at 10 medaling countries.


Have a nice time!

Peter Gustafsson

[Padawan]

The USA MST will not medal. Arent they fencing Hungary first?

I guess that this was an incorrect assumption

[edew]

And, I called it for MST, which most people didn't believe. Note also my call for WFI: Italy, Korea, Italy. The big disappointment (heh-heh) was China. I figured they would get more medals, just because they're the host country and lots of support from the home crowd. Apparently they choked big time. Completely choked. Yeah, great for Man Zhong in MS, but really, the rest of the very talented chinese fencers didn't produce at all.

Off to official homeland correctional camp for them all.

[bunbury]

Yeah but they're still winning the Olympics by a pretty nice margin