The Opening Ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics takes place on Friday at the Bird's Nest in Beijing, and the United States will aim to top the 23 medals it won in 2018 in PyeongChang. This year, the Over-Under for total medals won by Team USA is 22.5. Before locking in any Beijing Olympics 2022 picks or predictions, you need to see what SportsLine's Olympics expert Mike Tierney has to say.

A national sportswriter whose work appears in The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, Tierney has covered nine Olympic Games in person. For Rio in 2016, Tierney profited big-time. He told readers to bet Over on Team USA's gold medal count (41.5) and Over on Team USA's overall medal count (102.5). The result? 46 golds, 121 medals and two easy cashes.

For the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Tierney hit two of his three predictions: Germany (+200) to win the most gold medals and the United States winning Under 10.5 gold medals (+110). And at last year's Tokyo Games, he correctly predicted the United States would go Over 111.5 total medals (-110).

Anyone who has followed him is way up.

Now, with the Beijing Summer Olympics starting, Tierney has analyzed every sport and come up with his projected medal count for the Americans. He has identified several X-factors why this wager will cash. You NEED to see it before locking in any Beijing 2022 picks of your own.

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