Sky Bet are offering a great range of Winter Olympics betting markets ahead of the start of the XXI games in Vancouver on Friday.
A number of special markets on Great Britain’s performance are available and Team GB have been backed down to 6/4 (from 7/4) to meet the British Olympics Association’s expectations by bringing home three or more medals. It’s 5/2 that Britain claim just one medal or return empty handed, while a haul of two medals is favourite at 11/8.
Sky Bet’s winter sports betting expert Stephen Parkes said: “Britain will be quietly confident of collecting a respectable medal count, but with the competition as hot as ever we feel they may struggle and leave disappointed.”
Britain’s best hopes of a medal lie with the all-Scottish men’s curling team, who are 7/2 to follow up their 2009 World Championship victory by taking gold.
Shelley Rudman, who was Great Britain’s only medallist at Turin four years ago, is a 7/1 chance for the women’s skeleton, while Kristian Bromley is 14/1 for the men’s skeleton.
Chemmy Alcott, ranked 13th in the world, is Britain’s brightest skiing talent and is 3/1 to achieve a top ten finish in any event.
Germany are 13/8 favourites to top the medal table but Canada have come in for substantial support, prompting Sky Bet to cut their odds of winning most medals to 9/4 (from
Editor’s note: Odds quoted are checked and correct at the time of writing
