![]() ![]() ![]() If there's an Olympic archery final, chances are a South Korean is in it. Here is your definitive guide, based on past Olympic form, to the sporting monopolies of the Games. Which is that nation? What about archery, slalom canoeing, modern pentathlon, table tennis - who cleans up in those sports and beyond? Somewhere, however, there is a nation rubbing its hands with glee in anticipation of Greco-Roman wrestling, in exactly the same way as an expectant home crowd will throng London's velodrome. ![]() China dominates Olympic table tennis - including this one-two-three at the Beijing Gamesīy contrast, sports like handball and water polo had almost entirely passed Britain by until a home Games came around, while Greco-Roman wrestling still remains so obscure to us that not a single Briton has been entered. The point is that Team GB has become so dominant in a handful of sports that medals, even Olympic titles, in those disciplines can be all but guaranteed at London 2012. ![]()
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