Athletics

The heart and soul of every Olympics, athletics is the only sport that I was able to see two sessions of in Atlanta. (My others were table tennis, basketball, weightlifting, baseball, and soccer.) There’s no way of understanding how fun it is actually being in the stadium, because you’ve got two or three things going on at all times. Someone’s running, someone’s jumping, and someone’s throwing, all at once. You never know when someone’s about to move into first place. I hope with all my heart that I get to see it again at the Coliseum in 2028.

Projections:

Medal	Men’s 100m	Country
Gold	Noah Lyles	United States
Silver	Ackeem Blake	Jamaica
Bronze	Oblique Seville	Jamaica
Medal	Men’s 200m	Country
Gold	Noah Lyles	United States
Silver	Kenny Bednarek	United States
Bronze	Letsile Tebogo	Botswana
Medal	Men’s 400m	Country
Gold	Quincy Hall	United States
Silver	Matthew Hudson-Smith	Great Britain
Bronze	Kirani James	Grenada
Medal	Men’s 800m	Country
Gold	Marco Arop	Canada
Silver	Emmanuel Wanyonyi	Kenya
Bronze	Wyclife Kinyamal	Kenya
Medal	Men’s 1500m	Country
Gold	Reynold Cheruiyot	Kenya
Silver	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Norway
Bronze	Yared Nuguse	United States
Medal	Men’s 5000m	Country
Gold	Hagos Gebrhiwet	Ethiopia
Silver	Yomif Kejelcha	Ethiopia
Bronze	Grant Fisher	United States
Medal	Men’s 10000m	Country
Gold	Joshua Cheptegei	Uganda
Silver	Selemon Barega	Ethiopia
Bronze	Berihu Aregawai	Ethiopia
Medal	Men’s 110m hurdles	Country
Gold	Grant Holloway	United States
Silver	Hansle Parchment	Jamaica
Bronze	Wilhem Belocian	France
Medal	Men’s 400m hurdles	Country
Gold	Karsten Warholm	Norway
Silver	Alison dos Santos	Brazil
Bronze	Rai Benjamin	United States
Medal	Men’s 3000m steeplechase	Country
Gold	Soufiane El Bakkali	Morocco
Silver	Abraham Kibiwot	Kenya
Bronze	Simon Koech	Kenya
Medal	Men’s high jump	Country
Gold	Mutaz Esesa Barshim	Qatar
Silver	JuVaughn Harrison	United States
Bronze	Gianmarco Tamberi	Italy
Medal	Men’s pole vault	Country
Gold	Armand Duplantis	Sweden
Silver	Sam Kendricks	United States
Bronze	Ernest John Obiena	Philippines
Medal	Men’s long jump	Country
Gold	Tajay Gayle	Jamaica
Silver	Carey McLeod	Jamaica
Bronze	Miltadis Tentoglou	Greece
Medal	Men’s triple jump	Country
Gold	Hugues Fabrice Zango	Burkina Faso
Silver	Lazaro Martinez	Cuba
Bronze	Andy Diaz Hernandez	Italy
Medal	Men’s shot put	Country
Gold	Ryan Crouser	United States
Silver	Joe Kovacs	United States
Bronze	Tom Walsh	New Zealand
Medal	Men’s discus throw	Country
Gold	Mykolas Alekna	Lithuania
Silver	Kristjan Ceh	Slovenia
Bronze	Andrius Gudzius	Lithuania
Medal	Men’s hammer throw	Country
Gold	Wojciech Nowicki	Poland
Silver	Mykhaylo Kokhan	Ukraine
Bronze	Ethan Katzberg	Canada
Medal	Men’s javelin throw	Country
Gold	Neeraj Chopra	India
Silver	Jakub Vadlejch	Czech Republic
Bronze	Julian Weber	Germany
Medal	Men’s marathon	Country
Gold	Eliud Kipchoge	Kenya
Silver	Benson Kipruto	Kenya
Bronze	Sisay Lemma	Ethiopia
Medal	Men’s 20km walk	Country
Gold	Zhang Jun	China
Silver	Alvaro Martin	Spain
Bronze	Perseus Karlstrom	Sweden
Medal	Men’s decathlon	Country
Gold	Pierce LePage	Canada
Silver	Karel Tilga	Estonia
Bronze	Damian Warner	Canada
Medal	Men’s 4 x 100m relay	Country
Gold	United States	United States
Silver	Jamaica	Jamaica
Bronze	Japan	Japan
Medal	Men’s 4 x 400m relay	Country
Gold	United States	United States
Silver	Botswana	Botswana
Bronze	Great Britain	Great Britain
Medal	Women’s 100m	Country
Gold	Sha’Carri Richardson	United States
Silver	Shericka Jackson	Jamaica
Bronze	Julien Alfred	Saint Lucia
Medal	Women’s 200m	Country
Gold	Shericka Jackson	Jamaica
Silver	Gabrielle Thomas	United States
Bronze	Daryll Neita	Great Britain
Medal	Women’s 400m	Country
Gold	Marileidy Paulino	Dominican Republic
Silver	Natalia Kaczmarek	Poland
Bronze	Sada Williams	Barbados
Medal	Women’s 800m	Country
Gold	Mary Moraa	Kenya
Silver	Keely Hodgkinson	Great Britain
Bronze	Halimah Nakaayi	Uganda
Medal	Women’s 1500m	Country
Gold	Laura Muir	Great Britain
Silver	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya
Bronze	Diribe Welteji	Ethiopia
Medal	Women’s 5000m	Country
Gold	Ejgayehu Taye	Ethiopia
Silver	Gudaf Tsegay	Ethiopia
Bronze	Beatrice Chebet	Kenya
Medal	Women’s 10000m	Country
Gold	Gudaf Tsegay	Ethiopia
Silver	Tsigie Gebreselama	Ethiopia
Bronze	Lilian Kasait Rengeruk	Kenya
Medal	Women’s 100m hurdles	Country
Gold	Devynne Charlton	Bahamas
Silver	Jasmine Camacho-Quinn	Puerto Rico
Bronze	Danielle Williams	Jamaica
Medal	Women’s 400m hurdles	Country
Gold	Femke Bol	Netherlands
Silver	Rushell Clayton	Jamaica
Bronze	Janieve Russell	Jamaica
Medal	Women’s 3000m steeplechase	Country
Gold	Winfred Yavi	Bahrain
Silver	Beatrice Chepkoech	Kenya
Bronze	Faith Cherotich	Kenya
Medal	Women’s high jump	Country
Gold	Yaroslava Mahuchikh	Ukraine
Silver	Nicola Olyslagers	Australia
Bronze	Iryna Gerashchenko	Ukraine
Medal	Women’s pole vault	Country
Gold	Katie Moon	United States
Silver	Nina Kennedy	Australia
Bronze	Molly Caudery	Great Britain
Medal	Women’s long jump	Country
Gold	Tara Davis-Woodhall	United States
Silver	Ivana Spanovic	Serbia
Bronze	Larissa Iapichino	Italy
Medal	Women’s triple jump	Country
Gold	Shanieka Ricketts	Jamaica
Silver	Thea LaFond	Dominica
Bronze	Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk	Ukraine
Medal	Women’s shot put	Country
Gold	Chase Jackson	United States
Silver	Gong Lijiao	China
Bronze	Jessica Schilder	Netherlands
Medal	Women’s discus throw	Country
Gold	Valerie Allman	United States
Silver	Feng Bin	China
Bronze	Sandra Elkasevic	Croatia
Medal	Women’s hammer throw	Country
Gold	Camryn Rogers	Canada
Silver	DeAnna Price	United States
Bronze	Sara Fantini	Italy
Medal	Women’s javelin throw	Country
Gold	Haruka Kitaguchi	Japan
Silver	Flor Ruiz	Colombia
Bronze	Lina Muze	Latvia
Medal	Women’s marathon	Country
Gold	Tigst Assefa	Ethiopia
Silver	Peres Jepchirchir	Kenya
Bronze	Amane Beriso Shankule	Ethiopia
Medal	Women’s 20km walk	Country
Gold	Kimberly Garcia Leon	Peru
Silver	Jemima Montag	Australia
Bronze	Maria Perez	Spain
Medal	Women’s heptathlon	Country
Gold	Anna Hall	United States
Silver	Katarina Johnson-Thompson	Great Britain
Bronze	Nafissatou Thiam	Belgium
Medal	Women’s 4 x 100m relay	Country
Gold	Jamaica	Jamaica
Silver	United States	United States
Bronze	Great Britain	Great Britain
Medal	Women’s 4 x 400m relay	Country
Gold	United States	United States
Silver	Great Britain	Great Britain
Bronze	Jamaica	Jamaica
Medal	Mixed 4 x 400m relay	Country
Gold	United States	United States
Silver	Jamaica	Jamaica
Bronze	Great Britain	Great Britain
Medal	Mixed racewalk relay	Country
Gold	China	China
Silver	Australia	Australia
Bronze	Spain	Spain

Projected medal count:

Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
United States	15	7	3	25
Jamaica	4	6	5	15
Ethiopia	4	4	4	12
Kenya	3	6	5	14
Canada	3	0	2	5
China	2	2	0	4
Great Britain	1	4	5	10
Ukraine	1	1	2	4
Norway	1	1	0	2
Poland	1	1	0	2
Japan	1	0	1	2
Lithuania	1	0	1	2
Sweden	1	0	1	2
Uganda	1	0	1	2
Bahamas	1	0	0	1
Bahrain	1	0	0	1
Burkina Faso	1	0	0	1
Dominican Republic	1	0	0	1
India	1	0	0	1
Morocco	1	0	0	1
Peru	1	0	0	1
Qatar	1	0	0	1
Australia	0	4	0	4
Spain	0	1	2	3
Botswana	0	1	1	2
Brazil	0	1	0	1
Colombia	0	1	0	1
Cuba	0	1	0	1
Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
Dominica	0	1	0	1
Estonia	0	1	0	1
Puerto Rico	0	1	0	1
Serbia	0	1	0	1
Slovenia	0	1	0	1
Italy	0	0	4	4
Barbados	0	0	1	1
Belgium	0	0	1	1
Croatia	0	0	1	1
France	0	0	1	1
Germany	0	0	1	1
Greece	0	0	1	1
Grenada	0	0	1	1
Latvia	0	0	1	1
New Zealand	0	0	1	1
Philippines	0	0	1	1
Saint Lucia	0	0	1	1