The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics are one year out and already the Chicago Tribune is making medal predictions. Writer Philip Hersh is making what he calls “glass half-full” guesses. Here’s how he believes snowboarding is going to end up with 8 medals, three of them gold: (Turin’s medals are in parentheses):
Snowboard (7 medals, 3 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze): Boardercross (1 gold, 1 silver): Champion Seth Wescott and Lindsey Jacobellis, whose hot-dogging turned gold into silver, both return: Prediction: 2 medals, 1 gold. Parallel giant slalom (1 bronze): Prediction: No medals. Halfpipe (2 gold, 2 silver): Shaun White, now a grizzled 22, will be hot again. U.S. women, including 2006 1-2 Hannah Teter and Gretchen Bleiler, good enough to sweep. Prediction: 4 medals, 2 gold.
When we add in Nate Holland, Kelly Clark, and Steve Fisher, we think there will be even more medals.
[Link: Chicago Tribune]
As an ex x games researcher, i feel they should have hired me to do this. Sorry Seth, but enjoy that one gold medal you got. Nate Holland and Graham Watanabe are way better picks, duh.
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