New Zealand kayaker Lisa Carrington with her Gold Medal, after winning Gold in the Final of the Kayak Single K1 200m Women Canoe Sprint, held at Eton Dorney. NZ Herald photograph by Brett Phibbs
As the curtain comes down on New Zealand's record-equalling medal haul at the London Olympics the pundits at The Wall Street Journal will be grinning.
In their pre-Games predictions the Journal picked New Zealand to win five golds and 13 medals in total - equalling the previous record
haul the Kiwis achieved in Seoul in 1988 - and they nailed it.
Using the sort of forensic analysis usually reserved for human genome therapy, Sports Illustrated, Sport NZ, the Associated Press, USA Today and Goldman Sachs all had a crack at the Olympic predictions game - but none could match the mystic powers of the Journal.
The Kiwis easily surpassed their nine medal haul from Beijing in 2008 and won an impressive eight more medals than the the five picked up in Athens in 2004.
But they couldn't quite match the gold-rush from Los Angeles in 1984 when New Zealand won an incredible eight gold medals.
