Caeleb Dressel and Katie Ledecky's gold medal haul in Tokyo

RE: Caeleb Dressel and Katie Ledecky's gold medal haul in Tokyo

Steve Hall — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 17:06:07 GMT

these guesses were before trials! ;) Let's hope Ledecky shows up as a more prepared Ledecky than she did in Omaha.

RE: Caeleb Dressel and Katie Ledecky's gold medal haul in Tokyo

orca1946 — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 16:37:42 GMT

I see Ledecy as 4 and Dressel as 4 also. Relays are always a crap shoot with better times not always the winning factor.

RE: Caeleb Dressel and Katie Ledecky's gold medal haul in Tokyo

Elaine Krugman — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 17:32:45 GMT

I hate to rain on everybody's parade (including my optimistic prediction), but COVID is spreading in the Olympic bubble. If Caeleb or Katie test positive and get thrown in quarantine... I don't even have the heart to complete that sentence.

STAY SAFE, TEAM U.S.A.!!!

RE: Caeleb Dressel and Katie Ledecky's gold medal haul in Tokyo

Jeff Enge — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 13:27:42 GMT

13 would have to assume Dressel wins 3 individual + 4 relays, Katie wins 4 individual + 2 relays. I just can't see USA beating Australia in either free relay - AUS had 4 52s and 2 more 53s at their trials, all of them faster than what Weitzel won with at US trials. I've seen crazier upsets, but that's really tough to imagine.

RE: Caeleb Dressel and Katie Ledecky's gold medal haul in Tokyo

Daniel Paulling — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 12:31:05 GMT

My 13 was super-aggressive.

RE: Caeleb Dressel and Katie Ledecky's gold medal haul in Tokyo

Allen Stark — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 15:25:38 GMT

I don’t see Dressel getting both the 50 and 100 free. There are just to many fast sprinters. I think he is better in the 50 so I’ll guess 50fr, 100 fly, 400MR, 400MMR

I do see Ledecky winning the 400 free along with the 800&1500.
This means my guess is 7.I hope I’m low.

RE: Caeleb Dressel and Katie Ledecky's gold medal haul in Tokyo

Jeff Enge — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 13:50:57 GMT

Women's 200 should be a really good race - Titmus, Ledecky, Pelligrini as the favorites, but Siobhan Haughey, the Chinese and the Canadians could be right there too. Somebody like Freya Anderson or one of the Germans could break out.

400 is a little simpler - pretty much Titmus or Ledecky. Dark horse Kesely.

As for Dressel - maaaaaybe they give him a shot in the 8 FR? He only has the 100 free semi as the first event that morning and nothing that afternoon. I just don't think they have a chance to win it with or without him. GB and Russia and probably Australia are just too good top to bottom there.

RE: Caeleb Dressel and Katie Ledecky's gold medal haul in Tokyo

Elaine Krugman — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 22:18:13 GMT

I hope your wrong about the 200, too, because I would LOVE to see Katie clean up! For that matter, the same goes for Caleb.

I'm an optimist, so I am going with Daniel's 13!

RE: Caeleb Dressel and Katie Ledecky's gold medal haul in Tokyo

Jeff Enge — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 14:48:21 GMT

OK let's see.

Dressel - 50 fr, 100 fr, 100 fly, 400 MR, 400 MMR

100 free is his most questionable individual with Chalmers there (not going to say Popovici drops another half second quite yet). I'm going to say Russia takes the 400 FR. 400 MR depends upon how Greenbank leads off for GB.

Ledecky - 800 fr, 1500 fr

I hope I'm wrong about this, but Titmus has the momentum. I could see Katie getting bronze in the 200 even behind her and Pelligrini. And Australia's free relays are just too good.

So, that's total 7 golds.