Athletics Prediction Contests (34th edition)
For the 33rd Olympic Games
Paris Thursday 1 - 11 August 2024
Contest 1: Predict all the medal winners.
Contest 2: Predict the 20 biggest favorites.
As usual no entrance fee and the traditional money prizes.
Full access to the contests is now possible since Wednesday July 17th 2024 21:00 (CEST Time - GMT +2:00)Please register with your full name. Anonymous entries will be excluded for the prizes and final ranking.
The contests close for your last mutations Wednesday July 31st 2024 24:00 (CEST Time - GMT +2:00)
That is 7.30 hours before the start of the first athletics event in Paris - Direct a final: 20km Race Walk men.Be careful with namesakes like the brothers Alekna (Martynas vs Mykolas) etc.
As soon as I notice an athlete will not participate I will mark with a *, e.g. decathlon Pierce Lepage (CAN *)
Programme
These Olympics will bring changes to the Race Walk events.
On the first Ahtletics Day August 1, there will be (only) both 20 km Race Walk finals.
A bigger impact to the contests is that the 50km/35km individual Race Walk is no longer be held.
On the other hand, there is now a Marathon Race Walk for Mixed Teams for the very first time.
Not much information available, no history, only 21 april results, see more: WA Road-to-Paris website.
This results in a total of 48 events and medals to be predicted.
GDPR
With registration you agreed that your entries, scores, name, country are stored and published on this
site. Entries with no full name will be handled as not competing for the prizes and ranking, see rules.
Those will be labeled upfront or later with a * as soon as I notice.
The spirit of this game is to play with an open mind.
All time rankings
The All time Top3 and Pick20 rankings (default based on Average Percent Rank) are up to date and
are lead by: Santi Velasco and Joaquãn Carmona Torre (unbridgeable lead).
Pat Crandall passed away mid november 2023
Pat was a huge fan and supporter of athletics and this contest. He participated 19 times and you
can only conclude that he was extremely good, 9 times top 10! He was also one of the very first
overseas participants to find the first downloadable DOS floppy-based version online in 1999.
With more than 70.000 messages on the Track and Field news message board and a large number about
this competition, he was also a promoter. Very sad that his 2023 7th place turned out to be his farewell.
Ronald vW
(The issues with the extended set of characters like å, ł etc. in your name are resolved) Info, chat group |
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| Scoring model for 2024 | |||
| podium | |||
| prediction | g | s | b |
| g | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| s | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| b | 2 | 2 | 2 |
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ITA 
ESP 
IRL 
FIN 
GBR 
USA 
SWE 
BEL 
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BAR 
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CRO 
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POR 
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