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Football4Profit: News- Olympics: SkyBet's Odds

In order to commemorate Sky Bet’s sponsorship of Cycling for the Summer Olympics 2008, the firm is offering a variety of specials related to how the team will perform in the events. To start off the specials is one at even money that Great Britain will bring back home five or more gold medals in track events. Sky Bet also has Chris Hoy of Scotland to win gold in each of his chosen events at a price of 20/1, and Bradley Wiggins, another British Olympic Champion,  is sitting at a quote of 9/4 that he will take the triple crown, and win the gold medal on the Individual Pursuit, Team Pursuit and Madison. Dale Tempest, as PR Director for Sky Bet has said, “After Mark Cavendish's brilliant performance in the Tour de France, all eyes and expectations of the British public will now be with the GB cycling team at the Beijing Olympics.”

            Other bets include:

• The number of Gold Medals awarded to Team GB for Track/ Cycling
  • Less than 4.5 gold medals- odds 8/11
  • More than 4.5 gold medals- odds 1/1
    • Noted that the maximum number of gold medals is one per event, regardless of team members participating
• The number of Medals awarded to Team GB for Track/ Cycling
  • Less than 7.5 medals- odds 4/5
  • More than 7.5 medals- odds 10/11
    • Noted that the maximum number of medals possible is one per event.
• Specials for Chris Hoy performance(s)
  • Odds for winning the Men’s Individual Sprint- 11/8
  • Odds for winning 3 Gold Medals- 20/1
  • Odds for not winning any gold medals at all- 6/5
• Specials for Bradley Wiggins performance(s)
  • Odds for winning exactly 3 Gold Medals- 9/4
  • Odds for winning exactly 2 Gold Medals- 11/10
  • Odds for winning exactly 1 Gold Medal- 3/1
  • Odds for not winning any gold medals at all- 10/1
    • Noting that Wiggins must compete in at least one event for bets to stand.
• In the Men’s Team Pursuit event
  • Odds Great Britain will win the Men’s Team Pursuit Gold Medal- 1/4
  • Odds Great Britain will not win any medal in the Men’s Team Pursuit- 8/1
  • Odds Denmark will win Gold Medal- 9/2
  • Odds Australia will win Gold Medal- 14/1
  • Odds New Zealand will win Gold Medal- 14/1
  • Odds none of the previously aforementioned countries will win Gold- 28/1
• Special for the BBC Sports Personality Award 2008
  • For the winner to be a cyclist; odds are 3/1
• For the Men’s Team Sprint Award
  • Odds Great Britain will win the Gold Medal- 5/2
  • Odds Great Britain will not win any medal for the Men’s Team Sprint 7/4
  • Odds France will win the Gold Medal- 4/6
  • Odds the Netherlands will win the Gold Medal- 5/1
  • Odds Australia will win the Gold Medal- 8/1
  • Odds Germany will win the Gold Medal- 16/1
  • Odds none of the previously aforementioned countries will win Gold- 80/1
• For the Men’s Individual Sprint
  • Odds Chris Hoy will win the Gold Medal are 11/8
• Madison
  • Cavendish & Wiggins- odds are at 5/6

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