Olympic medal betting
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
The sports betting web has allowed punters to bet on a massive variety of sporting events. The Olympics start tomorrow and realistically only two nations will be competing to win the medals table. Its a straight up battle between the USA and China. Its west v east and communism v capitalism, once again. So who will win?
Well China are a team whove improved vastly in the last 20 years. From being relatively small nation, in terms of sporting pedigree, China is now one of the strongest nations the sports world and favourite to win the medal table. Ok, so every host nation has an advantage a generally does better in the games, but China is growing in all areas and sports.
The USA has won a total of 3688 medals at the summer Olympics and has been winning the medal tables for decade. The US has strong teams in the Athletics, Swimming, Basketball, Baseball and Softball. China on the other hand will dominate in sports such as Badminton, Table Tennis, Gymnastics, Weightlifting, Diving and shooting.
The US teams are 4/5 to finish the top of the medals table, an China 1/1. The nearest competitor is Russia and they are 20/1 to finish first. What ever happened it will be a exciting few weeks in Beijing!
Sports betting online has allowed customers to bet on a huge variety of events. Its a great way of earning a bit of extra cash, and there are dedicated sites now, to help you understand compare odds as well as provide news coverage on all the biggest betting events