USA Today published its medal tracker for London. Its tracker projects the winners in each medal event for the 2012 London Olympics, based on an algorithm that monitors athletes’ performances leading up to the Games. The table is update once a month.

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The USA Today Tracker uses data from Infostrada Sports and points out that the Tracker “is a measure of best current performances rather than a reliable predictor of medal winners”.

<< Click on image for canoe sprint. Infostrada Sports has a number of statistical packages to offer clients. One of them, Podium Manager, contains data on more than 200,000 athletes over 100 years of sports history and has a detailed focus on the last Olympic cycle. Infostrada Sports provides data on all 302 Olympic disciplines. 

On the left an example of the January 2012 rankings for canoe sprint. If you want to play around with the Medal Tracker yourself a bit folow this link: www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/medal-tracker.htm. Allow the page some time to load.

You can find the predictions for canoe slalom here.