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SI's Brian Cazeneuve:
Daily Medal Picks from Sydney
| September 28 |
| Diving |
| Women's 3-meter springboard |
 Guo Jingjing, China |
 Fu Mingxia, China |
 Yulia Pakhalina, Russia |
| Two-time platform champ Fu was 14 when she struck gold in '92 |
| Sailing |
| Open Single Handed Dinghy (Laser) |
| Robert Scheidt, Brazil |
| Ben Ainslie, Great Britain |
| Michael Blackburn, Australia |
| Scheidt won '96 gold by luring Ainslie into false start |
| Women's Single Handed Dinghy (Europe) |
| Margriet Matthijsse, the Netherlands |
| Kristine Roug, Denmark |
| Shirley Robertson, Great Britain |
| Roug outraced Matthijsse for gold at the '96 Games |
| Soccer |
| Women's |
| U.S. |
| China |
| Brazil |
| Three best teams -- U.S., China and Norway -- are in same bracket; one won't reach semis |
| Taekwondo |
| Men's 58kg - 68kg |
| Hadi Saelbonebkohal, Iran |
| Aziz Acharki, Germany |
| Steven Lopez, U.S. |
| Saelbonebkohal is reigning world champ and World Cup winner |
| Women's 49 - 57kg |
| Hamide Tosun, Turkey |
| Jung Jae Eun, South |
| Cristina Corsi, Italy |
| Tosun blitzed competition at tournament in Croatia last year |
| Track and Field |
| Men's Long Jump |
| Iván Pedroso, Cuba |
| James Beckford, Jamaica |
| Kareem Streete-Thompson, Cayman Islands |
| U.S.-born, raised in the Caymans, Streete-Thompson jumped internationally for U.S. in '93 |
| Women's 200 Meters |
| Marion Jones, U.S. |
| Inger Miller, U.S. |
| Debbie Ferguson, Bahamas |
| Miller's dad, Lennox, won two medals in 100 for Jamaica; only father-daughter track medalists |
| Women's Shotput |
| Svetlana Krivelyova, Russia |
| Astrid Kumbernuss, Germany |
| Larisa Peleshenko, Russia |
| Krivelyova edges Germany's three-time world champ |
| Men's 50km walk |
| Valeriy Spitsyn, Russia |
| Robert Korzeniowski, Poland |
| Curt Clausen, U.S. |
| U.S. walkers haven't fared better than bronze since 1920 |
| Men's 200 Meters |
| John Capel, U.S. |
| Ato Boldon, Trinidad |
| Francis Obikwelu, Nigeria |
| Capel's 19.85 is fastest non-altitude-aided time this year |
| Men's Decathlon |
| Tomás Dvorák, Czech Republic |
| Erki Nool, Estonia |
| Roman Sebrle, Czech Republic |
| Dvorák is golden, especially with Dan O'Brien out with foot injury, but can he reach 9,000 points? |
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