Gymnastics

I suppose there was a time gymnastics wasn’t a marquee sport in the United States. But I’m too young to remember it. All I remember is the 1996 women’s team winning the gold medal, and the country falling in love with the sport. Now the USA is coming off five consecutive gold medals in the women’s all-around, and looking for a sixth. They’ll probably get it, but one thing we’ve learned is that this sport is never predictable. I’m not too confident in my projections, even though (unlike most of the other sports) I’ve actually watched the Trials of this sport. Due to the lack of clear rankings in this sport, I am literally taking a shot in the dark on this.

Projections:

Medal	Men’s individual all-around	Country
Gold	Illia Kovtun	Ukraine
Silver	Tang Chia-Hung	Taiwan
Bronze	Ryu Sunghyun	South Korea
Medal	Men’s team	Country
Gold	China	China
Silver	Japan	Japan
Bronze	Great Britain	Great Britain
Medal	Men’s floor exercise	Country
Gold	Illia Kovtun	Ukraine
Silver	Ryu Sunghyun	South Korea
Bronze	Benjamin Osberger	France
Medal	Men’s pommel horse	Country
Gold	Nariman Kurbanov	Kazakhstan
Silver	Ahmad Abu Al Soud	Jordan
Bronze	Illia Kovtun	Ukraine
Medal	Men’s still rings	Country
Gold	Samir Ait Said	France
Silver	Nikita Simonov	Azerbaijan
Bronze	Vahagn Davtyan	Armenia
Medal	Men’s vault	Country
Gold	Artur Davtyan	Armenia
Silver	Nazar Chepurnyi	Ukraine
Bronze	Pau Jimenez	Spain
Medal	Men’s parallel bars	Country
Gold	Illia Kovtun	Ukraine
Silver	Oleg Verniaiev	Ukraine
Bronze	Rasuljon Abdurakhimov	Uzbekistan
Medal	Men’s horizontal bar	Country
Gold	Tang Chia-Hung	Taiwan
Silver	Robert Tvorogal	Lithuania
Bronze	Tian Hao	China
Medal	Women’s individual all-around	Country
Gold	Simone Biles	United States
Silver	Sunisa Lee	United States
Bronze	Zhou Yaqin	China
Medal	Women’s team	Country
Gold	United States	United States
Silver	China	China
Bronze	Canada	Canada
Medal	Women’s vault	Country
Gold	Simone Biles	United States
Silver	Jade Carey	United States
Bronze	An Chang-ok	North Korea
Medal	Women’s uneven bars	Country
Gold	Sunisa Lee	United States
Silver	Jordan Chiles	United States
Bronze	Kaylia Nemour	Algeria
Medal	Women’s balance beam	Country
Gold	Simone Biles	United States
Silver	Hezly Rivera	United States
Bronze	Zhou Yaqin	China
Medal	Women’s floor exercise	Country
Gold	Simone Biles	United States
Silver	Sunisa Lee	United States
Bronze	Charlize Morz	Austria
Medal	Women’s rhythmic all-around	Country
Gold	Darja Varfolomeev	Germany
Silver	Sofia Raffaeli	Italy
Bronze	Elvira Krasnobaeva	Bulgaria
Medal	Women’s team	Country
Gold	China	China
Silver	Italy	Italy
Bronze	Bulgaria	Bulgaria
Medal	Men’s trampoline	Country
Gold	Wang Zisai	China
Silver	Yan Langyu	China
Bronze	Miguel Feyh	Germany
Medal	Women’s trampoline	Country
Gold	Zhu Xueying	China
Silver	Hu Yicheng	China
Bronze	Bryony Page	Great Britain

Projected medal count:

Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
United States	6	5	0	11
China	4	3	3	10
Ukraine	3	2	1	6
Taiwan	1	1	0	2
Armenia	1	0	1	2
France	1	0	1	2
Germany	1	0	1	2
Kazakhstan	1	0	0	1
Italy	0	2	0	2
South Korea	0	1	1	2
Azerbaijan	0	1	0	1
Japan	0	1	0	1
Jordan	0	1	0	1
Lithuania	0	1	0	1
Bulgaria	0	0	2	2
Algeria	0	0	1	1
Austria	0	0	1	1
Canada	0	0	1	1
Great Britain	0	0	1	1
North Korea	0	0	1	1
Spain	0	0	1	1
Uzbekistan	0	0	1	1