Tokyo Olympics 2020 medal table: how it works, 2021 predictions and Team GB s hopes
Are the United States likely to prove as dominant as ever and can Team GB possibly improve on their second place from Rio 2016?
24 July 2021 • 12:12am
Charlotte Dujardin won one of 27 Team GB gold medals at the Rio Olympics
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Team GB have set themselves the target of remaining at least in the top five of the Olympic medal table, but have suggested that this generation may peak in Paris in 2024 when more than two-thirds of the team are rated as medal prospects.
After record-breaking medal hauls in London and Rio de Janeiro, when Team GB were respectively third and second in the medals table, the youngest team for more than a decade will be competing in Tokyo following the departure from the main stage of serial winners like Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, Sir Bradley Wiggins, Dame Katherine Grainger, Alistair Brownlee and Sir Mo Farah.
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The Tokyo Olympics, a year late, shorn of crowds and now opposed by many in the host city, are already one of the strangest in history. Japan s hopes of using the Games to project an image of modernity and power in Asia are dashed. Even before the torch is lit on Friday, the Covid Games are already a symbol of a world muffled by the pandemic and its relentless capacity to crush dreams.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 medal table: How it works, 2021 predictions and Team GB s hopes
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