Canada to win 13 gold medals at Sochi 2014 Olympics: predictions
If all goes according to plan, according to the Associated Press, by February 23 when the Olympic Flame is extinguished at Fisht Olympic Stadium, Canada will have won 13 gold medals and 31 medals overall at the 2014 Winter Games.
The final projections, which include seven silver and eleven bronze medals, will be five more than the 26 medals won at Vancouver 2010.
At the home Games, Canada bookended its medal performance with a first ‘home soil’ gold by freestyle skier Alexandre Bilodeau on Day 2 and the men’s ice hockey gold on the final day of competition.
Based on the projections (listed in full below), Canada is expected to reprise the men’s ice hockey gold title for the second consecutive time but will not be able to defend the women’s ice hockey gold title against the United States.
Canadians will be a powerhouse in freestyle skiing, winning four gold and ten medals overall in the sport. They are strong contenders for the new Olympic freestyle skiing and snowboarding sport events being introduced at Sochi – sports that Canada already excels at in the Winter X Games.
At Nagano 1998, snowboarding was introduced as an Olympic sport and Whistler’s Ross Rebagliati was the first ever to win the gold medal in the men’s event.
Patrick Chan will figure skate to gold in his singles competition while ice dance duo Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue will win silver, coming behind American skaters Charlie White and Meryl Davis who won silver in Vancouver against Canadian gold. Canada will also win the figure skating team trophy, a new figure skating event being added to the Winter Games this year.
Canadian Medal Predictions – Sochi 2014
Alpine Skiing: Men’s Super-G
- Bronze – Jan Hudec, Canada
Alpine Skiing: Women’s Super-Combined
- Bronze – Marie-Michele Gagnon, Canada
Bobsleigh: Women
- Gold – Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse, Canada
Curling: Men
- Gold – Canada
Curling: Women
- Bronze – Canada
Figure Skating: Men’s Singles
- Gold – Patrick Chan, Canada
Figure Skating: Pairs Dance
- Silver – Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, Canada
Figure Skating: Team Trophy
- Trophy Winner – Canada
Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Aerials
- Bronze – Travis Gerrits, Canada
Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Halfpipe Skiing
- Gold – Mike Riddle, Canada
- Bronze – Justin Dorey, Canada
Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Moguls
- Gold – Mikael Kingsbury, Canada
- Silver – Alex Bilodeau, Canada
Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Ski Cross
- Bronze – Chris Del Bosco, Canada
Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Slopestyle Skiing
- Bronze – Mike Riddle, Canada
Freestyle Skiing: Women’s Moguls
- Silver – Justin Dufour-Lapointe, Canada
Freestyle Skiing: Women’s Ski Cross
- Gold – Marielle Thompson, Canada
Freestyle Skiing: Women’s Slopestyle Skiing
- Gold – Dara Howell, Canada
Ice Hockey: Men
- Gold – Canada
- Silver – Russia
- Bronze – Sweden
Ice Hockey: Women
- Gold – United States
- Silver – Canada
- Bronze – Finland
Luge: Women
- Bronze – Alex Gough, Canada
Short Track: Men’s 500
- Bronze – Charles Hamelin, Canada
Short Track: Men’s 1000
- Gold – Charles Hamelin, Canada
Short Track: Men’s 1,500
- Gold – Charles Hamelin, Canada
Short Track: Women’s 1,500
- Silver – Valerie Maltais, Canada
Snowboarding: Men’s Parallel Giant Slalom
- Gold – Jasey Jay Anderson, Canada
Snowboarding: Men’s Slopestyle
Gold – Max Parrot, Canada
Snowboarding: Women’s Snowboard Cross
- Silver – Dominique Maltais, Canada
- Bronze – Maelle Ricker, Canada
Speed Skating: Women’s 1,500
- Bronze – Christine Nesbitt, Canada
Speed Skating: Women’s Team Pursuit
- Silver – Canada