Team GB tipped to bring home 62 medals from Paris 2024 Olympic Games

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Great Britain are forecast to triumph 62 medals astatine the 2024 Olympics successful Paris.

An investigation released 1 twelvemonth retired from the Games predicts Team GB volition decorativeness 4th successful the medal array down hosts France, China and the United States.

Britain won 65 medals astatine London 2012, 67 successful Rio 2016 and 64 successful Tokyo 2020, having failed to scope 60 successful immoderate azygous Games successful 100 years earlier that.

The Gracenote forecast predicts 10 idiosyncratic golden medals including skateboarder Sky Brown, 15.

Keely Hodgkinson successful the 800m, Bethany Shriever successful the BMX, Jessica Gadirova and Bryony Page successful gymnastics and Bradly Sinden successful the taekwondo are immoderate of the different athletes projected to instrumentality gold.

World 1500m champion Jake Wightman and women's bronze medallist Laura Muir are forecast to triumph bronze and metallic respectively successful Paris, portion Dina Asher-Smith is predicted to instrumentality 200m bronze.

However, European 200m champion Zharnel Hughes is among those not included successful the medal count, contempt being considered among the favourites astatine this year's World Athletics Championships having tally the fastest 100m clip this year.

Among 9 swimming medals, two-time Olympic 100m breaststroke champion Adam Peaty is expected to instrumentality metallic - arsenic is Tom Dean successful the 200m freestyle.

Dean precocious took silver astatine the World Aquatics Championships down chap Briton Matt Richards, who is not included among the predicted medals.

Elsewhere, reigning Olympic men's upland motorcycle champion Thomas Pidcock has not been included among 7 cycling medals, nor has men's pommel equine golden medallist Max Whitlock successful gymnastics.

The forecast does person GB squad golds successful sports including men's and women's rowing and equestrian eventing, with aggregate metallic and bronze squad medals crossed the athletics relays, swimming and cycling disciplines.

"Britain is expected to travel adjacent to sustaining its show successful Tokyo," said information analysts Gracenote Nielsen.

"Gracenote's virtual media array forecasts a driblet of conscionable 2 medals to 62. Gold medals could beryllium importantly down, though, arsenic the British squad are connected conscionable 15 golds successful this archetypal prognosis.

"British occurrence implicit the past 3 Olympic Games has been built connected having medal winners successful astatine slightest 20 sports and the archetypal virtual media array forecast suggests that this is acceptable to continue."

Russian and Belarusian competitors were not included successful the calculations due to the fact that of uncertainty implicit their participation.

The International Olympic Committee is inactive fine-tuning its stance connected athletes from those countries.

Team GB cook de ngo Mark England said: "I deliberation we've got a large accidental to beryllium the apical European federation again, contempt the information that the location federation is very, precise beardown and getting stronger for a full assortment of reasons.

"So apical European nation, apical 5 are our aspirations. I cognize that we are medal-competitive successful a important fig of sports. I deliberation we've got each of those gathering blocks, notwithstanding we've got different 12 months to physique connected that."

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