The Tokyo Olympics begin on July 23, and despite the threat of Covid-19 that still hangs over, each country hopes to win as many medals as possible. Withings takes the bets!
Can connected health help win medals? This is the bet of Withings, which studied the data collected by its devices around the world: sleep score, number of steps, body fat … The French manufacturer then established rankings by trying to guess which countries would win the more medals. And France is not badly placed!
France at the top in swimming
The total number of hours of swimming training thus places France in pole position, and by far with nearly 830,000 hours, against 505,000 for the United States and 460,000 for Germany. Historically, France and the United States have always been opposed in the pools but to believe this statistic, this time the gold medals should logically rain on the French team.
France is also not badly situated in the sector of average muscle mass per user: the gain is 272 grams for France, behind Spain (320 grams) and Italy (283 grams). Should we expect bronze medals for French weightlifters? Withings observes that for China, Australia and the United States, things may be complicated with loss of muscle mass …
Sleep, essential to achieve feats, puts France in the worst place: behind Finland (with a score of 72.7), the Netherlands (71.6) and Belgium (71.4), l ‘Hexagone is in fourth position with 70.6. In this area, good hygiene is necessary to be on top. This will not be the case for Russia, China and Japan, at the bottom of the rankings.
The French Olympic team should not expect too much to win medals in disciplines involving walking. France is indeed penultimate in the ranking with an average of 5,352 steps per day, ahead of Hungary (5,351) but very far behind the three champions Spain (6,257), Sweden (6,469) and China (6,228 ).
Withings has collected this data anonymously from 5 million connected balance and watch users around the world since the last Olympic Games in Rio in 2016.
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