Paris Olympics 2024: Canada forecast to win fewer medals this year [Video]

Fewer Canadians are expected to reach the Paris podium than in the previous two Olympic Summer Games, a global data analytics company predicts.

Canada is expected to take home 21 medals, according to the Nielsen’s Gracenote Final Virtual Medal Table, which publishes medal haul predictions for the Olympics in addition to statistical analysis for sports leagues around the globe. Among the total haul, Gracenote forecasts Canadians will take home seven gold, nine silver and five bronze medals — three fewer than Tokyo 2020’s collection of seven gold, seven silver and 10 bronze.

If the prediction is correct, it will be the fewest medals earned for Canada at the Summer Olympics since London 2012, when Canada brought home a total of 18 medals. Gracenote’s projections have historically been generally accurate. Most recently, it correctly named the top three medal-winning countries in Tokyo 2020 in the right order, and in Beijing 2022, predicted Norway would break the …