What country do you think will win the olympics in the mens and womens?

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[oldandslow]

If we are voting for the most sharks and crocodiles I vote 1 for Australia!!

Good luck with the pics Keely - I hope in the interest of fairness you will be posting photos from the women’s games as well?

[Go Jamie Dwyer]

Ok this is for who do you think will win the olympics. All you guys happy now?

[ragyrascal]

I can't believe I accidentally outed myself on the forum... 

[braxer001]

So euhm if it's about the Beijing olympics, could we maybe get Belgium, Canada and South Africa into the poll and India, Argentina and Japan out of the poll?

[Snoody]

Think I could guess where your vote might go then, Braxer... 

[braxer001]

Although I do fully support my national team, I know the odds of them winning the Olympics this year are pretty flimsy. They realise this as well, appearantly the aim is to end 8th or better, 6th spot would be really good
So no, I don't think they will win the Olympics in the men. I'm still not sure who to vote for actually, it's going to be either Ned, Aus or Ger I reckon.

[Magpie]

Fixed the list and added the women, so you can now make 2 votes.

[fh4me2000]

  Yeah thanks Magpie...now we can actually vote for something....Time for me to cast my vote.

[pun9ab1]

I think I'll go for the Aussies in the mens and Argentina in the womens but I would love to see the USA girls get a medal at Olympics

[nerd_is_the_word]

germany spain korea and pakistan dangerous outsiders? i would say more that germany and spain will be up there with holland, while korea and pakistan will have to pull out something extra from what they normally do in order to make the top 4.


yeha i went australia and argentina

[braxer001]

I voted for the aussie men and the dutch women.

However, I think the men's competition is pretty open, Australia, Netherlands, Germany are probably my top 3 bet, with Spain, Pakistan and Korea as 'reserve' picks

[Craggsy]

Spain in the mens, and the Aussies in the Ladies.

[RushMan]

Australia for the Mens Gold, China for the Womens gold

BTW  Australia played Germany in a lead up game for the Champions Trophy the other day in a 1-1 draw

[Alexei]

I'm a big fan of German Hockey.
The Men's Team look good but it can be an open affair during the Games itself.
Not sure about the Women's Team if they can defend their gold medal. They didn't look convincing at times, but somehow managed to spring some surprising results (CT 06, Euro 07)

At the same time, I also hope my fellow Asians (KOR, PAK & CHN in the Men's) to do well. Maybe Korea has an outside chance to qualify for the medal rounds. A good overall performance from Asia would help a lot for Asia's allocation to the next World Cup. (Perhaps 3 World Cup places from 2009 Asia Cup?) 

[contramowly]

in men,  NED is, in my opinion, the overall strongest team.

in women, there's many chances, and the basis of the prediction is knowing what is preparing CHN. After the first 2 matches I'll be more sure...

my bet would be between CHN and GER