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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/olympic-offical-usa-to-top-medal-count-in-beijing/">Olympic Offical: USA to Top Medal Count in Beijing</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted January 18, 2008 at 05:52 PM by Jimmie R. Markham</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Luciano Barra, an Italian Olympic official and a leading Olympic medal prognosticator, is predicting that Team USA will take home more hardware from Beijing than any other country. Here are his predictions for the top medal getters: USA Overall: 98, Gold: 47 China Overall: 89, Gold: 38 Russia Overall: 88, Gold: 32 His predictions have been revised since August, when he predicted that China would lead the gold medal count with 45, followed by USA with 41, then Russia with 34. According to the article: “Both China and the United States are downplaying their chances in the Aug 8-24 Olympics. The home-country always get a boost from hosting the Games, but this time Chinese officials are saying they will be disadvantaged by the pressure. The Americans…<a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/olympic-offical-usa-to-top-medal-count-in-beijing/">(<a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/olympic-offical-usa-to-top-medal-count-in-beijing/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/olympic-offical-usa-to-top-medal-count-in-beijing/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/olympic-offical-usa-to-top-medal-count-in-beijing/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/archive/category/beijing-2008/">Beijing-2008</a><br /><br /> </P>