A supercomputer has predicted the final medal table for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, and the results are good for Team GB.
The beauty of the Olympic Games is that athletes from across the globe come together and compete, with anyone in theory capable of winning.
The Paris Games are not yet a week old but already athletes from Great Britain and Northern Ireland are doing pretty well.
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Team GB have won 20 medals so far, including six golds, seven silver and seven bronze.
The six golds include Thomas Pidcock's remarkable comeback win in the cycling mountain biking event, as well as Alex Yee's stunning victory in the triathlon.
Team GB also took gold in the eventing team equestrian event, the Women's quadruple sculls rowing, the trap men's shooting and the men's 4 x 200m swimming freestyle relay.
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As of 12pm BST Thursday China topped the medal table with 11 golds, three ahead of hosts France and Japan. The United States have won the most medals overall, 31, of which six are gold.
If one simulation of the Games is anything to go by, then Team GB will go on to make history in Paris.
Just before the 2024 Games Nielsen's Gracenote published a virtual medal table forecast, with the United States finishing with the most overall medals with 112, 39 of which are predicted to be gold.
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The supercomputer predicted that China will come second with 86 medals (34 gold) with Great Britain coming third with a total of 63 (17 gold) across 21 different sports.
If the simulation turns out to be accurate then Team GB will win one less medal than they did at the 2020 Games in Tokyo and five fewer golds.
Should Britain hit that figure then they will win at least 60 medals for a fourth successive Summer Olympics.
Prior to the 2012 Games, Great Britain had not won medals in at least 20 sports for over 100 years, since hosting in 1908.
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Host nation France are predicted to win 60 medals, a huge increase on the 33 total medals won in Tokyo three years ago.
The prediction has France finishing in third place on gold medals, behind the United States and China, and its final forecast total of 27 gold medals would be not far short of France’s total number of medals at the last Olympics.
Alex Brotherton