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2008 Olympic Games

The 2008 Summer Olympics are almost here. The games are being hosted in Beijing, the People's Republic of China, August 8th-24th. Will the hometown favorites steal the show and take home the most medals? Or will countries like Russia and the United States spoil the homecoming event? Will Great Britain improve on it's 10th place showing in the medal table from 2004?

With the Olympic games getting closer and closer and many people are starting to get their game faces on. The media is starting to show interest in all of those sports you only care about every four years and of course the endless human interest stories.

Inviting the finest athletes in the world to compete against each other, the Games will also provide a stage for China to present itself to the world during 16 days and 17 nights of sporting celebration.

2008 Beijing Olympics Betting Schedule - Going For Gold

The Olympic Games have to be one of the highlights of the sports betting calendar, bringing together millions of viewers and fans of a good range of sports, including track and field events, rowing, and tennis. The Summer Olympics are held once every four years, with the next one being due in 2008. The Winter Olympics occur in in-between years and will next be held in Vancouver, Canada in 2010.

It looks like betting will be as strong for the Beijing games as it was in Athens in 2004. We"ll have more information on markets as it becomes available, but expect standard win markets and medal markets for men and womens events plus a variety of specials like the number of medals to be won by individual nations.

With Olympics odds available for 28 disciplines featuring 302 eventsscheduled over the 16 days of the Olympics extravaganza, it is easy for bettors to be overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of Olympics betting options available. This can however work in bettors’ favour as many conventional bookmakers are offering Olympics betting Lines for which they have little or no expertise, such as betting on BMX racing, Synchronised Swimming odds or Archery wagering giving bettors the opportunity to take advantage of inaccurate Olympics odds. The key therefore to successful Olympics betting is do your research, study the Olympics schedule in detail, and look for value.

The most general and broad category of 2008 Summer Olympics betting is the medal table. The medal table is simply a tally of who win's the most medals; gold, bronze, and silver.

The 2008 Olympics in Beijing is expected to have the highest TV ratings of all the previous summer games. It's going to be an enormous betting event.

As it currently stands, oddsmakers favor China (4/5) and the United States (11/10) to win the most overall medals at the Summer Olympics. Russia was given 14/1 odds, while every other country is listed at 50/1.Oddsmakers also like China (2/5) and the United States (13/8) to win the most gold medals, with Russia the next favorite at 25/1.

The over/under on total medals for the United States has been established at 92.5 (-120), while the over/under for total medals for China has been set at 94.5 (-120).

If the Olympics betting market you are looking for isn't available now, keep checking back as new options are being added all the time.

2008 Olympic Medals by Country

While the names of Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt stand out when we look at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, there were other aspects of the fortnight that deserve a closer look. Notably, we are talking about the overall organisation of the Games and also the efficient manner in which China conducted the event the logistics of which are simply mind boggling.

True, there might have been a few glitches, but that is to be expected when we consider the sheer size of the Olympics with over a million visitors, incuding the sportspersons, the Media and the officials who poured into Beijing.

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