Olympic Gold Medal Hopefuls

With just a year to go, who would be your Olympic Gold Medal hopefuls for next year. Will Britain succeed their expectations or will it just be another let down?

Gold-

Athletics Mo Farah- 5000m + 10,000m
Triathlon- Alistair Brownlee
Triathlon- Helen Jenkins
Athletics- Dai Greene- 400m Hurdles
Athletics- Phllips Idowu- Triple Jump
Boxing- Luke Campbell- Bantamweight
Cycling- Chris Hoy- Sprint
Diving- Tom Daley- 10m Platform
Gymnastics- Beth Tweddle- Floor Exercise
Sailing- Ben Ainslie- Finn
Swimming- Liam Tancock- 50m Backstroke
Swimming- Rebecca Adlington- 800m Freestyle

Other contenders include Andy Murray, Mark Cavendish, Bradley Wiggins, Fran Halsall, Hannah Miley, Anthony Agogo and Jessica Ennis.

Can you imagine how emotional it's going to be for Tom Daley if he wins Olympic Gold?

Probably just an error on your behalf mate but Idowu is a triple jumper.

Meant to ask you this on my thread, but why do you think Agogo is a potential Gold medalist? Beat Vijender Singh in the Commonwealths, but all his points were through fouls on his opponents behalf. Comfortably beaten by O'Kane in the final. He was also knocked out in the first round of the European Championships in June.

Personally I think he will struggle to qualify, let alone medal.

I thought that Agogo was impressive on his way to that fight against Singh. With a year to go he's time to improve.

Fair enough, but the standard at the Commonwealths isn't that high. The Singh win was a freak result. O'Kane at the time wasn't the best Middleweight in Ireland and comfortably beat him. He's got a South Korean in the first round of the Worlds so it will be interesting to see how far he progresses in the tournament. But I think his selection for Team GB is down to a lack of quality at middleweight rather than him being that good.

We should win 5 golds in cycling, another 4 in sailing and rowing, both triathlon, between 1 and 3 in swimming, a couple of shooting golds and upto another 8 in all other events put together.
Overall, it'll be our best haul ever by a loooooooooooooooooooooooooong way.

I hope Euan Burton can win a medal in judo.

Nitpicking I guess , Liam , but I should point out that 50m backstroke isn't an Olympic event , so your namesake Tancock will have to do it in the 100 back...

Unfortunately I don't think he can do so - a minor medal just maybe if he swims out of his skin.

Hmmm well I don't follow all the sports so of the ones I know enough of, and going for optimism as it's a home Olympics:

Athletics: Mo Farah x2, Jess Ennis, Idowu, Greene, Meadows, Dobriskey/England. This is based on this year and previous performances obviously. Someone like Tiffany Offili-Porter could also be in with a shout.

Triathlon: the Browlee brothers have a great chance (though they can't both win obviously).

Cycling: on the track, plenty, but too early to call as the stupid "one per event" rule means we don't know who's going. On the road, Cavendish has to be in with a chance, as do a couple of the girls in the road race and ITT (Wiggins will prob not run the ITT).

Swimming: Addlington has a couple of chances, but hard to see any others winning gold right now (though we could well get a few medals from this).

Diving: Tom Daley.

Expect some medals from rowing and sailing, but don't know enough to make a prediction.

ReallyReal wrote:We should win 5 golds in cycling, another 4 in sailing and rowing, both triathlon, between 1 and 3 in swimming, a couple of shooting golds and upto another 8 in all other events put together.
Overall, it'll be our best haul ever by a loooooooooooooooooooooooooong way.

Maybe a little too optimistic. It will be hard to beat Beijing's 19 golds as we won't dominate cycling the way we did. We can hope for at least 2 in Athletics, 2 in Swimming (including Open Water and Diving), 1 in Boxing, 3 in Sailing, 3 in Rowing, 1 in the Triathlon, 1 in Taekwondo, 1 in Canoeing and 1 in the Equestrian events.

Outside chances of a gold in Gymnastics.

Overall anything between 15 and 20.