The 2021 Olympics are planned to be held in Tokyo this time around and should have a handful of new and exciting events. Alongside a lot of the usual events like men\u2019s basketball and women\u2019s soccer, we will be seeing skateboarding, surfing, sport climbing and karate for the very first time. That isn\u2019t all either, as both softball and baseball are planned to return to the Olympics after a brief time away. Here we take a look at some of the upcoming over-unders for the top projected countries this year, and one group is planned to absolutely dominate once again. Let\u2019s take a look and see where a few of the best countries stand before the Olympics officially begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
USA \u2013 110.5 medals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n USA has a great opportunity to surpass this projection in the upcoming Olympics. They were able to pick up a whopping 121 medals back in 2016, with 46 gold medals, 37 silver and 38 bronzes. It wasn\u2019t very close either, as the next closest nation was China with only 70 total. One would likely think that another country would have a strong chance to surpass USA this year, but the odds don\u2019t think so at all. USA is expected to completely dominate the Olympics after doing so back in 2016 even with the new events that are planned to come in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n China \u2013 85.5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n China is the only country to have come pretty close to the USA in terms of medal count lately. In fact, China was able to actually top USA in total gold medals during the 2008 Beijing Games with 48, though USA still dominated in terms of total medals. They have a pretty solid chance considering that the games are back onto Asian soil and may be the country with the best shot at knocking off the overwhelming favorites. They weren\u2019t able to hit this mark in 2016, so it won\u2019t be easy to get themselves up to 85.5 total medals this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Great Britain \u2013 42.5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Great Britain has come on strong lately and has really surprised some people. During the 2016 Olympics, Great Britain was able to surpass China and finish in second place with 27 gold medals. They only beat China by one in that category, but it was definitely a statement performance, one that could carry over to this year\u2019s games. Given the fact that they have a solid chance to place in a number of different events, hitting 42 total medals is totally doable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Japan \u2013 59.5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Japan is expected to come out with a ton of new motivation now that they are the host country for these games. Japan has solid odds to win or even place in quite a few different events here and could end up rocketing up the rankings when it comes to total medals. They are likely not going to be overtaking either Great Britain or China but have a lot of potential this year. Japan isn\u2019t nearly as heavily projected to win as any of the above countries but that doesn\u2019t mean they don\u2019t stand a fighting chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2021 Olympics are planned to be held in Tokyo this time around and should have a handful of new…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":15943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18210,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18199\/revisions\/18210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}