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Boom, boom and boom. (We would not have picked anyone, let alone two guys, to swim under 4:07, but who said anything about time?)<\/p>\n<p>We also got the top two finishers in the day\u2019s women\u2019s events\u2014<strong>Katinka Hosszu<\/strong> and <strong>Maya DiRado<\/strong> in the 400 IM, and Australia and the U.S. in the 400 free relay\u2014spot on.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s 400 free, not so much. Some of us on staff thought <strong>Mack Horton<\/strong> would win gold. Others picked <strong>Sun Yang<\/strong>. So there was a compromise prediction: <strong>James Guy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Guy was the World Champion in the 200 free in 2015 and finished second to Sun in the 400. But it would take another massive step forward for Guy to win Olympic gold in the 400.<\/p>\n<p>And so when he had a big lead through the 250, we looked like sages. Unfortunately, that did not last, and Guy missed the podium. Horton, who we ended up picking for bronze won gold. At least Sun actually got the silver, just like we predicted!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winners picked correctly: 3 of 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Day Two: No-Brainer World Record-Breakers<\/h3>\n<p>The three individual events on the docket for day two included the women\u2019s 100 fly, men\u2019s 100 breast and women\u2019s 400 free. Anyone who did not pick <strong>Sarah Sjostrom<\/strong>, <strong>Adam Peaty<\/strong> and <strong>Katie Ledecky<\/strong>, respectively, in those three events would have simply been kidding themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Sjostrom won by 0.98, Peaty by 1.56 and Ledecky by 4.77. All three broke world records. Not like we went out on a limb here.<\/p>\n<p>For the men\u2019s 400 free relay, we picked France. Without much confidence. It was quite clear that Australia or the United States could also win gold, and maybe even Russia could sneak in with <strong>Vladimir Morozov<\/strong> reinstated to swim in Rio at the last minute. It would just depend on which team performed in the moment.<\/p>\n<p>France put typically-reliable <strong>Fabien Gilot<\/strong> on their finals squad\u2014and he proceeded to split a sluggish 48.20. Australian veterans <strong>James Roberts<\/strong> and <strong>James Magnussen<\/strong> struggled mightily. Russia did not get\u00a0the fast splits it needed from\u00a0<strong>Andrey Grechin<\/strong> or <strong>Danila Izotov<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And the Americans stepped up. <strong>Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> led off with a best time, <strong>Michael Phelps<\/strong> was in vintage form,<strong> Ryan Held<\/strong> delivered in the biggest moment of his career, and <strong>Nathan Adrian<\/strong> was Mr. Consistency. So, yeah, we missed this one when we picked the U.S. to get the bronze, but call it a not-that-unexpected miss.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winners picked correctly: 3 of 4<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Cumulative: 6 of 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Day Three: Some Twists and Turns<\/h3>\n<p>This one was definitely not our best. Of our gold medal picks for the four straight finals on day three, the first two did not even win a medal. In the men\u2019s 200 free, we picked Guy to back up his 2015 World title with Olympic gold, but he barely snuck into the final in the eighth qualifying spot. He ended up fourth as Sun won gold (we picked him for silver), and<strong> Chad le Clos<\/strong> picked up a surprising silver medal from lane one.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was the women\u2019s 100 back, where we picked <strong>Emily Seebohm<\/strong> and wrote that \u201cHungary\u2019s Katinka Hosszu may forego the 100 back to focus on her other races.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hosszu won gold, and Seebohm was seventh. Whoops.<\/p>\n<p>Of the four medalists in that event (there was a tie for bronze), we predicte\u00a0one: <strong>Mie Nielsen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s 100 back went better with the projected American 1-3 finish playing out, and<strong> Lilly King<\/strong> came through for gold in the 100 breast.<\/p>\n<p>The original version of our picks had<strong> Yulia Efimova<\/strong> getting the bronze, but she was taken out when she was banned from the Games for her past doping violations. That, of course, changed the night before the meet when the IOC allowed her back in. The realities of journalism put that one firmly in the category of \u201cwe tried.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winners picked correctly: 2 of 4<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Cumulative: 8 of 12<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Day Four: Perfect<\/h3>\n<p>The women\u2019s 200 free was hyped up as a showdown between Ledecky and Sjostrom. The race lived up to the billing, and as we predicted, Ledecky came out on top.<\/p>\n<p>Phelps had his sights set on returning to the top of the podium in the men\u2019s 200 fly after he was touched out by le Clos four years ago in London. We picked him, despite a shaky performance in the event at Olympic Trials and le Clos and <strong>Laszlo Cseh<\/strong> both swimming well coming in.<\/p>\n<p>And Phelps indeed won it. So what that the margin of victory was four one-hundredths of a second or that the primary challengers turned out to be <strong>Masato Sakai<\/strong> and<strong> Tam\u00e1s Kenderesi<\/strong> instead of le Clos and Cseh?<\/p>\n<p>Hosszu figured to dominate the women\u2019s 200 IM, but <strong>Siobhan-Marie O\u2019Connor<\/strong> was hot on her heels and gave the Hungarian reason to sweat it out. But the final result was Hosszu first, O\u2019Connor second and DiRado third\u2014exactly how we picked it.<\/p>\n<p>And then came the men\u2019s 800 free relay, which the Americans won easily, as expected\u2014despite a near-disaster when Phelps\u2019 cap ripped before the race. Great Britain, on the strength of Guy\u2019s strong anchor leg finished second\u2014also as expected\u2014while Japan beat Australia by seven tenths of a second for third.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, we picked Australia, but they might well have won a medal if <strong>Cameron McEvoy<\/strong> swam this relay. McEvoy tied for the Australian national championship in the event in April, but he sat out to rest for the next day\u2019s 100 free final (more on that in part two of the predictions analysis, coming Thursday). 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