Athletes at the 2024 Paris Olympics will compete for gold on Friday in a wide range of sports that include boxing, cycling, soccer, martial arts, track and field, and many more. SportsLine Olympics analyst Mike Tierney has zeroed in on numerous track and field events including the men’s triple jump, shot put, relays, and hurdles. Tierney also has dissected the matchups for boxing, in which the gold medals will be won for both men and women in two weight classes each.
The wide-ranging slate includes sailing competitions that begin around 6:15 a.m. ET and wraps up with the women’s boxing finals that are slated to start at approximately 4:50 p.m. ET. Before locking in any 2024 Summer Olympics picks on those events or others, you need to see what SportsLine Olympic insider Mike Tierney has to say.
A national sportswriter whose work appears in The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, Tierney has covered nine Olympic Games in person. At Rio in 2016, Tierney profited big-time. He told readers to bet over on Team USA’s gold medal count (41.5) and over on Team USA’s overall medal count (102.5). The result? 46 golds, 121 medals and two easy cashes. Then, at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Tierney hit two…
