I'm taking winter 2006 Olympic bets. Cost nothing to enter since if you win, you will get the same - nothing. (except bragging rights)
What to bet on:
A. Pick the top 3 countries with the most total medals: (If tie for total medals, then most gold out of the tied will be placed ahead of the other)
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B. Pick which country will have the most gold medals:
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C. Pick one country which will only get 1 medal:
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Anyone else have any other "easy" thing that people can place their picks on. To help out, here is the medal count for the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics:
[gold medal - silver - bronze - total]
Germany 12 16 8 36
United States 10 13 11 34
Norway 13 5 7 25
Canada 7 3 7 17
Austria 3 4 10 17
Russia 5 4 4 13
Italy 4 4 5 13
Switzerland 3 2 6 11
France 4 5 2 11
Netherlands 3 5 0 8
China 2 2 4 8
Sweden 0 2 5 7
Finland 4 2 1 7
Croatia 3 1 0 4
South Korea 2 2 0 4
Bulgaria 0 1 2 3
Czech Republic 1 2 0 3
Estonia 1 1 1 3
Poland 0 1 1 2
Australia 2 0 0 2
Japan 0 1 1 2
Great Britain 1 0 1 2
Slovenia 0 0 1 1
Belarus 0 0 1 1
As you can see, 2 countries got just 1 medal in 2004. USA at "home" got almost 3 times more medals then ever before, so will be interesting if the USA can keep that up in an Olympic they historicly do not do good at.