Dr Steve has predicted the gold medal counts for 10 countries based on jet lag science.

Travel across time zones and the implications for human performance post pandemic: Insights from elite sport – Frontiers in Public Health
‘Social jet lag’: Nightclub hours are hurting player performance at Australian Open – The Age
Going for gold: why the Tokyo timezone could benefit Australian athletes in their medal hunt – RMIT
Will the UK do better at the Paris or Tokyo Olympics Games? – BBC Radio
The advantage Australian athletes have over most competitors at the Tokyo Olympics – 3AW Radio
Hidden factor set to boost Aussie’s gold rush – The Australian $
Jet lag cuts Olympic gold medal counts in half – The Tech of Sports

Olympic Games Predictions

Olympic Games 2024 Report Card

My Olympic medal predictions were hopelessly wrong (often)! And… I couldn’t be happier! This means that FINALLY people are paying attention to the effects of jet lag on performance. Now if only the business community took it as seriously as the athletic community…

Olympic Games Predictions

Team GB for the win

I put my money where my mouth is, and I predict 26 or more gold medals for Team GB. EDIT: I got this VERY wrong! 😂😂😂 But I couldn’t be happier – see my report card.

Olympic Games Predictions

Olympic Predictions for Paris, 2024

Olympic predictions for Paris, 2024 Back in 2021 I published my Tokyo Olympic gold medal predictions (see below), and I think I did fairly well overall. Predicting Olympic gold medals is not an exact science, and there can be outliers – I can’t predict someone like Steven Bradbury. However, I have shown that gold medal counts decrease when athletes cross multiple time zones, and silver medal counts increase (for more information click here).

Olympic Games Predictions

Game of Zones

The 2020 2021 Tokyo Olympics are almost upon us, in the most unusual of times as the world is slowly emerging from the pandemic. Being obsessed with jet lag means that I tend to view world events through the lens of jet lag, and the Olympic Games is definitely no exception. While there have been several models used to predict Olympic medal success, none of them have taken jet lag into account as far as I know.