Olympics: 4 medals predicted for South Tyrol

The renowned US sports magazine “Sports Illustrated” makes detailed forecasts for the Olympic Games every two years. A team of experts around the author Brian Cazeneuve has always been responsible for this.

This time South Tyrol is expected to win 4 medals. If the US experts have their way, there will be a gold medal in the cross-country skiing team sprint. Dietmar Nöckler from Bruneck will take part in the freestyle sprint on Wednesday, February 21st, together with Italy's top sprinter Federico Pellegrino. According to US experts, the “Azzurri” put Norway and Sweden in second and third place.

According to Cazeneuve, there could be another gold medal in biathlon. On February 12th, in the women's 10 km pursuit. Then hopes rest on Dorothea Wierer.

According to the reporter from the American magazine, “Doro” ends up in first place ahead of the Slovakian Anastasia Kuzmina and Darja Domrachewa from Belarus.

South Tyrol's artificial track toboggans, however, won bronze. The US experts see the “Azzurri” mixed team relay, which consists exclusively of South Tyroleans, in third place behind the top favorites Germany and Austria.

There is also bronze for snowboarder Roland Fiwickeler. He has to admit defeat to gold contender Kevin Galmarini from Switzerland and the Austrian Alexander Payer.

Hirscher and Shiffrin with gold hat trick Marcel Hirscher could become one of the superstars of these Olympic Games. If the US specialist magazine has its way, the Salzburger won gold in the slalom, giant slalom and combined.

According to the forecast, South Tyrol's ski stars will come away empty-handed in the Alpine ski competitions. According to US experts, medals for the “Azzurri” are only available for women. Sofia Goggia won bronze in the downhill and silver in the combination, Federica Brignone can look forward to bronze in the Super G. The experts believe Mikaela Shiffrin can win triple gold in the slalom, the giant slalom and the combined event.

The medal table would be Norway with 42 medals (including 17 gold) ahead of Germany with 35 medals (15 gold) and Canada with 30 medals (9 gold) as well as the medal table winner from 2014, the USA with 28 medals (9 gold), decide for yourself. According to the forecast, Italy is in 12th place with 4 medals, including 12 gold medals. This means that the “Azzurri” would have 4 medals more than in 2014.

An overview of the US sports magazine's forecasts can be found here .

According to the “SportNews” forecasts, a lot is possible at the Olympic Games in South Korea. There is everything about the chances of South Tyrolean athletes here .

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Olympics: 4 medals predicted for South Tyrol

2 times gold, 2 times bronze. This is what the South Tyrolean athletes achieved at the 2018 Olympics. At least according to the renowned US magazine “Sports Illustrated”.

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