Summer Olympics
2012: Odds on gold medals by country
Today
is the start of the 2012 Summer Olympics games in London, UK,
and as always, we will begin our Olympic coverage with the odds
on the gold medals. While not as popular for bettors world-wide,
the Summer Olympics are still expected to generate quite the
buzz in the online gambling community and the major sportsbooks
are wasting no time to come up with entertaining odds, in
addition to the betting odds on the actual games. We always like
to begin the Olympic games coverage with the total amount of
Gold Medals expected and the odds on each country to deliver
those gold medals in 2012. For this, we turn to the popular
online sportsbook
Bovada (official website),
where the odds on the Summer Olympics gold medals are already
posted and even moving.
This year, however, the odds makers have
decided to add a little twist to the usual betting classics,
making the gold medal odds an over/under type of wagering. For
example, USA is still atop of the odds table to win the most
gold medals in the 2012 Olympics, but the sportsbook has posted
the gold medals expected to be won by USA at 38.5 and bettors
must wager on whether the gold medals won by USA will be either
Over or Under that amount. At this point, both "over" and
"under" are paying on equal -115 odds, but as bettors make their
wagers, those odds could certainly change. The over/under odds
on China's gold medals is at 36.5, two less expected by the
betting site as compared to USA, but bettors are questioning the
amount of medals and the payout on "under" 36.5 gold medals has
dropped to "even". The gold medals for Russia are sitting at
25.5 and again the odds are changing, with "under" paying out on
the whopping -175 odds. Visit Bovada to see the full list of
countries on this over/under gold medal betting sheet.
And if you are wondering which country
has the best odds to win the most Gold Medals, here are the odds
on that. Odds to win most gold medals:
USA -175
China +140
Russia +2500
Great Britain +3300
Published
on 07/27/2012
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