Here are some (too early) medal predictions for the Summer Olympics

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With the Summer Games in Paris now less than six months away, it's fair to start wondering how Canada's athletes will do. Recently, Nielsen's Gracenote (a division of the TV-ratings measurer) released its latest Virtual Medal Table, based on medal projections in every event from its statistical model.

With the disclaimers that computers aren't always right, a lot can change in the next six months, and these are not my personal predictions, here's the picture the model paints:

Canada will approach its medal record. Three years ago in Tokyo, Canada won 24 medals — its most ever at a non-boycotted Summer Olympics — and matched the national non-boycotted record with seven gold. The Gracenote model predicts Canada will fall just short of those marks in Paris with six gold and 23 total medals.

Summer McIntosh will be Canada's biggest star. We didn't need a computer to tell us that. But, like most humans, the model predicts big things for the 17-year-old swimming phenom. The back-to-back women's 200m butterfly and 400m individual medley world champion will win gold in both of those events and add a silver in the 400m freestyle and bronze in the 200m IM for a total of four medals, Gracenote says. The algorithm might be selling McIntosh short, as she could be in line for some relay medals after collecting one at each of the last two world championships. Canada's only other multiple medallist in Paris, Gracenote projects, will be sprint canoeist Katie Vincent. The model has her taking a pair of silvers, in the women's singles and doubles events.

A Canadian will win gold in the