Next year on July 24th, 2020, an expected 11,091 athletes from 206 nations will gather in Tokyo, Japan to celebrate at the opening ceremony of the Games of the XXXII Olympiad. They will compete for gold, silver and bronze medals in 339 events across 33 sports, honoring the long-standing tradition of the modern Olympic Games, which began in Athens, Greece in 1896. As with many international sporting mega-events, professional forecasters and enthusiastic fans enjoy predicting the outcome of the Olympic Games. The national medal table is a common metric for quantifying the overall performance of each country, aggregating the number of gold, silver, bronze and total medals collected by the individual athletes of each national team.
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