The Associated Press (AP) is projecting that Jamaica will win 9 medals in athletics at this summer’s Olympic Games in Brazil. That medal haul comprises of four gold, four silver and a bronze; a total of three less than the 12 Jamaica-won medals at the 2012 London Olympics. The AP ascribed the gold medals to only Usain Bolt, and Omar McLeod.
The American multinational nonprofit news agency has predicted that Bolt will win three gold medals to become an unprecedented three-time gold medal winner at a third consecutive Olympic games. McLeod is predicted to lead home a Jamaica one-two finish in the men’s 110-meter hurdles.
Of note is that AP has Jamaica out of the medals in the women’s 100 meters, but has predicted that Elaine Thompson will win the bronze medal behind Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands and American Tori Bowie in the women’s 200 meters.
Sports Illustrated also released their Rio 2016 prediction saying Jamaica will win 11 medals but only in track and field. They predict Usain Bolt will get his 100, 200 and 4×100 meter gold medals, but think Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will fail to win an individual medal for the first time in her Olympic career.
The 2016 Olympic Games gets under way on August 5th and runs until August 21st in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.
