Olympics

Prediction for the 100m final at the Tokyo Olympics

On Sunday the Tokyo Olympics men sprint 100m final will take place. Francesc Montané reminded me in his analysis that 9 years ago I used a simple regression model to predict the winning time for the 100m men sprint final of the 2012 Olympics in London. My model predicted a winning time of 9.68s, yet Usain Bolt finished in 9.63s. For this Sunday my prediction is 9.72s, with a 50% credible interval of [9.