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2024 Olympics medal futures odds, predictions: Olympic champion makes picks for most medals, gold totals
By CBS Sports Staff,
7 hours ago
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While a global pandemic denied Tokyo the opportunity to host the Olympic Games in the traditional manner, Paris will have no such issue when the 2024 Summer Olympics officially begin with the Opening Ceremony on Friday. The 2020 Tokyo Games were pushed back an entire year due to the COVID-19 outbreak and took place without public spectators. Things will return to normal in France, where a total of 17 cities will host events. In addition, the surfing competition will be held in Tahiti, an island in French Polynesia. The first medals will be handed out on Friday.
The Americans are -2000 favorites (risk $2,000 to win $100) to win the most medals and -550 to bring home the most golds in the latest 2024 Olympics odds. China is +1300 for the most overall medals and +350 for most golds, while Great Britain is third for most total medals at +6000 and most golds at +4200. Before locking in any 2024 Summer Olympics medal futures or predictions, you need to see what SportsLine Olympic insider Dan O'Brien has to say .
O'Brien is a highly decorated decathlete who won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, becoming the first American to accomplish the feat since Bruce Jenner 20 years earlier. O'Brien also is a five-time U.S. champion and three-time world champion in the event, and he held the decathlon world record from 1992-99 and the heptathlon world record from 1993-2010. As a result of his achievements, O'Brien is a member of the USATF, USOC and IAAF Halls of Fame.
O'Brien is predicting that the United States once again will capture the most medals at the Olympic Games. The Americans have reached triple digits in total medals 13 times and fell one shy of the plateau when the Summer Games last were held in Paris. They won nearly half of their 2020 medals in the pool and on the track, collecting 30 in swimming and 26 in track & field.
Many of Team USA's medal winners in those competitions at Tokyo are back for more, including swimmers Katie Ledecky, Caeleb Dressel and Ryan Murphy and sprinters Sydney McLaughlin, Rai Benjamin and Vernon Norwood -- all of whom took home at least two medals in 2020. The 27-year-old Ledecky won two golds and two silvers in Tokyo to bring her career total to 10 Olympic medals, while Dressel -- also 27 -- became the fifth swimmer in Olympic history to earn five golds in a single Olympic Games.
Also competing in Paris will be gymnasts Simone Biles (seven career Olympic medals) and Suni Lee, the last two champions in the women's all-around event. See more predictions from O'Brien at SportsLine .
How to make 2024 Olympics medal count picks
O'Brien has analyzed the 2024 Paris Olympics from every angle and revealed which countries to back and fade, including a longshot who has a chance to shock the world with its medal count. He's only sharing his picks here .
See picks at SportsLine . USA -550 China +350 Great Britain +4200 Japan +5500 France +8000 Germany +12000 Australia +16000 Netherlands +16000 Canada +16000 South Korea +23000 Hungary +50000 Italy +50000 Brazil +50000 Cuba +50000
Most total medal odds
See picks at SportsLine . USA -2000 China +1300 Great Britain +6000 Japan +6000 Australia +12000 France +16000 Germany +16000 Italy +19000 Netherlands +32000 Canada +42000 South Korea +50000 Cuba +50000 Hungary +50000 Brazil +50000 New Zealand +50000
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