Olympic Contest

Update - Bumped again... Opening ceremony is tomorrow night, folks. Get your guesses in!

Maybe a preview of what's to come will whet your appetite...

Update - Bumped to the top. Keep the guesses coming...

The 2008 Summer Olympics are days away and Uncle Dayf has some neat stuff planned. In addition to the cardboard celebration of the Olympics (or the Once Every Four Years Marketing Debacle if there's a lawyer out there with nothing better to do) I've got a contest for you all.

Rules are simple: Pick a country, any country. Tell me how many total medals they will win. If you pick closest, you win.

One caveat, however: If your country wins no medals, you don't win either. So no picking the Principality of East Bumblestan to win zero medals. You won't win anything. Also, to the bold, come the spoils. If you pick Equatorial Guinea to win one medal and they get a bronze in the sack race, you'll win, but not much. If you nail the number of medals one of the big boys like US, Russia or China wins, there shall be relics or autographs or both. So choose wisely.

The prize: a pile of the Olympic cards that will be featured during the games.

Remember: pick a country, then the total number of medals (Gold, Silver and Bronze added together), post it in the comments and watch the games to see who wins. Deadline for entries is the start of the Opening Ceremonies on 8/8/08.

For tiebreakers (or if secondary prizes if there is a clear winner) here are three questions:

1) Who will win the men's 100 meter dash, and will he be busted for steroids before the games are over?

2) How many home runs will Team USA softball player, Crystl Bustos hit in the games?

3) What was the only event I got to see in person in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and what country won?

Good luck...

NOTE - You can choose the same country as someone else, just don't pick the same number of medals. The 4 people who have chosen already may change their country if they wish since I wasn't clear on that.