Gracenote’s Data Analytics Predicts Winners and Losers of 2016 Rio Olympics

USA, China and Russia Top Medal Counts,

Spain, Argentina, Italy and Ukraine Show Steady Declines

EMERYVILLE, Calif., April 26, 2016 – Gracenote®, the world’s leading provider of entertainment data and subsidiary of Tribune Media Company (NYSE: TRCO), is using its sports data expertise to predict which countries and athletes will step up at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games if the games were held today.

Infostrada Sports twitter accounts renamed to Gracenote

As Infostrada Sports rebrands to Gracenote Sports, we want to inform you that we’re changing our Twitter handles over to Gracenote. If you’re already following one or more of our accounts, know that this will be a seamless transition. You won’t have to do a thing to continue to get the same outstanding sports scores, stats, facts & figures and insights.

ANALYSE THIS: Australia overtakes Great Britain in Virtual Medal Table

GENERAL – Australia has moved into fourth position in the Infostrada Sports’ Virtual Medal Table (VMT) after the inclusion of athletics and swimming personal bests since May 2015 took projected golds away from Germany and Great Britain and added four medals to Australia’s forecast total.

The Rio 2016 Virtual Medal Table

Latest Rio 2016 forecast predicts a decline in medals for Great Britain in comparison to London 2012.

Beijing will host the 2022 Olympic Winter Games

OLYMPIC GAMES –  At the 128th IOC Session, it was announced today that Beijing will host the 2022 Olympic Winter Games.

BEHIND THE DESK: Sochi 2014 Sports Codes

OLYMPIC GAMES – Our updates on the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games will contain the following abbreviations for the 15 sports:

AS – Alpine Skiing

BS – Bobsleigh

BT – Biathlon

CC – Cross-Country Skiing

CU – Curling

FR – Freestyle Skiing

FS – Figure Skating

IH – Ice Hockey

LG – Luge

NC – Nordic Combined

SB – Snowboard

SJ – Ski Jumping

SN – Skeleton

SS – Speed Skating

ST – Short Track

RECORD: Selänne going to record-tying sixth Winter Olympics

ICE HOCKEY – Finland’s Teemu Selänne has been called up for Sochi and will be the second Ice Hockey player to make SIX Olympic appearances . The only other Ice Hockey player that has participated in a half dozen Olympic Winter Games is Selänne’s countryman Raimo Helminen.

BREAKING: Tokyo voted host city of 2020 Olympic Games

OLYMPIC GAMES – Tokyo outlasted Istanbul and Madrid in the IOC vote that determined the host city of the 2020 Olympic Games. Tokyo has now won the bid three times. They won the right to host the Games in 1940, but they were scratched because of World War II. In 1964, Tokyo hosted the Games for the first time. Tokyo joins London as the only cities in the world to have won the bid to host the Olympic Summer Games at least three times.

INFOGRAPHIC: SD gold no guarantee for Olympic gold

SPEED SKATING – From Thursday to Sunday, Speed Skating’s World Single Distances Championships will take place at the Olympic track in Sochi, Russia. A blueprint for the Olympic Games should not be expected, since only 12 of 44 (27%) defending champions in a single distance managed to win a gold medal in that same distance little under 12 months later. Click this link to see our Infographic.

IN THE NEWS: Infostrada Sports Group and IOC commit

OLYMPIC GAMES – We are tremendously proud to announce that the Infostrada Sports Group and the International Olympic Committee have voiced their intention to commit until 2020. We thank the IOC for vesting trust in our company in providing statistics, data and athlete biographies for the Sochi 2014 Winter Games, the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Games, the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Games and the 2020 Summer Games, to be held in a city that has yet to be appointed as host.

 

ISG has previously signed service provider agreements with Olympic Games organising committees, including Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Turin 2006, Beijing 2008, Vancouver 2010 and London 2012. It has also delivered services to the first Youth Olympic Games in Singapore 2010.

Gilbert Felli (IOC Olympic Games Executive Director, left) and Danny Menken (CEO of Infostrada Sports Group). In back row: Anthony Edgar, IOC Media Operations Manager, Jean-Benoît Gauthier (IOC Technology Director), Guido Bouw (ISG Sales Director), and Bas Blokpoel (ISG Data Services Director).