Here are the favourites of the top events according to Eurosport's Top Consultants (Heike Drechsler, Tim Hutchings, Anders Borgström and Ria Stalman).
Jumping and Combined events
In the women's long jump the Russians Tatyana Lebedeva, Irina Simagina and Tatyana Kotova will share the medals amongst themselves, just the way they did in Athens. Be sure the girls will have to jump at least 6.75m to reach the final.