{"id":1456,"date":"2008-08-16T18:01:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T23:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/sacramone-and-phelps-dominate-olympics-but-in-difference-ways\/"},"modified":"2008-08-16T18:01:11","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T23:01:11","slug":"sacramone-and-phelps-dominate-olympics-but-in-difference-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/sacramone-and-phelps-dominate-olympics-but-in-difference-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramone and Phelps Dominate Olympics, But in Difference Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While gymnast Alicia Sacramone has throbbed<\/span>
\nthe hearts of Americans and Michael Phelps keeps winning Gold, sharp Olympic
\ngamblers continue to crush the sportsbooks<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

There is still plenty of money to be made and we don\u2019t
\nmean in selling Sacramone<\/span> pictures. Rowing has
\nseveral events still to be decided with Great
\nBritain<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> the favorite in most events. <\/p>\n

Bookmakers have the following as the heaviest favorites to
\nwin their respective Gold Medals (Olympic Betting
\nOdds<\/a>): Usain<\/span> Bolt of Jamaica<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>
\nis 1\/12 to win the 200 meter in track and field. The men\u2019s 10,000 meters will go
\nto Kenenisa<\/span> Bekele<\/span> of Ethiopia<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>
\nand the 400 meter to Jeremy Wariner<\/span> of the USA<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>.\n<\/p>\n

The men\u2019s triple jump is more wide open with Philips Idowu<\/span> of Great Britain<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>
\na more modest 6\/5 favorite. The communist countries will likely get Gold and
\nSilver in the 110 meter hurdles with Dayron<\/span> Robles of
\nCuba and Liu Xiang<\/span> as near co-favorites. <\/p>\n

The men\u2019s long jump frontrunner is Irving Saladino<\/span> of Panama<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>.
\nMany events are considered wide open, but virtual locks also include Blanka<\/span> Vlasic of Croatia<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>
\nin the women\u2019s high jump and Jamaica<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>
\nin both the women\u2019s and men\u2019s 4×100 relay. <\/p>\n

However, Team USA<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>
\nis a Michael Phelps like favorite to win the men\u2019s 4×400 at 1\/25. <\/p>\n

Either way, the 1\/69 favorite of the OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a>
\nstaff is Alicia Sacramone<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While gymnast Alicia Sacramone has throbbed the hearts of Americans and Michael Phelps keeps winning Gold, sharp Olympic gamblers continue to crush the sportsbooks. There is still plenty of money to be made and we don\u2019t mean in selling Sacramone pictures. Rowing has several events still to be decided with Great Britain the favorite in … Continue reading Sacramone and Phelps Dominate Olympics, But in Difference Ways<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}