Liverpool: The United States will win 99 medals followed by China’s 90 at the Rio Olympics, academic sports forecasters at the University of Liverpool have predicted.
The forecasters hope their Rio 2016 top 10 medals table will replicate their successful predictions in 2008. They failed to produce accurate predictions in 2012 even though the Games was held in London, reports Xinhua.
Professor David Forrest and Juan De Dios Tena, from the university’s management school, worked alongside professor Ian McHale from the University of Salford, to reveal their predicted team-by-team medal table for Rio 2016, based on statistical modelling.
