20 Chinese gold medal contenders at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

China's athletes are a formidable force at the modern Summer Games, finishing in the top four of the medal table in all but one of the past 10 Olympics. But a disappointing third-place in Rio in 2016, behind the United States and Great Britain, with just a 26-gold medal return, meant China went into the Tokyo Olympics desperate for a repeat of its performance at the 2008 Games in Beijing, where it topped the gold medal table with 48. In the end, China won 38, just one fewer than the US, and beforehand the Post looked at the country's top contenders.