Back-to-back gold medals from judo's Abe siblings and gymnast Daiki Hashimoto are likely to help Japan finish fourth on the medal table at this summer's Paris Olympics, sports analytics firm Nielsen's Gracenote predicted Friday.The company expects Japan to bring home 56 medals, two fewer than its record haul at the Tokyo Games held in the summer of 2021, in its latest Virtual Medal Table forecast exactly six months ahead of the opening of the 2024 Olympics. The predicted total includes a drop in its gold medal tally from 27 to 17.Gracenote tipped the United States to finish on top of the ta…READ FULL ARTICLE
