Friday, August 13, 2004

Olympic Bits and Pieces

Google have once again outdone themselves with their cute graphics - Love their Athens 2004 homepage image


If you want an insight into this year's swimming - the Australian press is a good place to look for hints about their team - and whilst the biggest swim event of the games is always going to be Phelps v Thorpe in the 200m men's freestyle, the Ozzie team reckon Hackett is in the form of his life and you can get some great value on him overturning the Thorpe domination of the freestyle events

Bet 365 have Hackett at a tempting 7/2 for the 200m freestyle, whilst Thorpe is unbackable at 1/6

The Olympics has sadly got off to a scandalous start already with the news that Greek 200m hero Kostas Kenteris missed a drugs test yesterday - shades of the Rio Ferdinand fiasco last year.

Kenteris was expected to have lit the Olympic cauldron at the Opening Ceremony as well as being Greece's flagbearer but that honour has gone to a team member.
And just to pile on the misery for the Greeks, Kenteris was then involved in a road accident

The Men's 100m has finally turned into an interesting race as Asafa Powell has shocked the USA's Maurice Greene twice in recent European events.
Powell is the current favourite to take the Gold at 11/10 with Bet 365 - but no stranger to the Olympics, at 2/1, Greene can definitely pull out the stops to overturn recent results.

Matthew Pinsent is on course for his fourth Olympic Gold Medal - this time without Steve Redgrave. He's in the coxless fours - and whilst Canada are current favourites to take this race at 2/1, Pinsent's fairytale ending can be backed at 3/1 with Bet 365

Bet 365 has a host of odds available on all the top Olympic events

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