Olympic Biathlon Odds

Did you know you could bet on the Biathlon at the 2010 Winter Olympics?

The biathlon is just one of the many events that people can bet on at the 2010 Winter Olympics. People can bet online through one of the various sportsbooks available on the web today. Betting on the 2010 Winter Olympics is not only profitable, but also more entertaining and enjoyable. When the Olympics begin on February 12th over 5,000 competitors will compete with the same goal of winning the gold medal.

The biathlon is a very interesting sport combining two events into one. For those of you who have no idea what the biathlon is, it consists of cross country skiing and rifle shooting. Competitors race through a windy ski track as fast as they can, stopping four times to shoot a station of targets. The targets are shot in two different positions; half of them lying down, half standing up. If a competitor misses a target at one of the stations, they are penalized with extra time added on at the end. The person with the lowest overall time will win the race. This type of event makes betting very interesting; a favored competitor could slip up and miss a target giving the underdogs a huge opportunity to capture the gold.

There are many options when betting on the biathlon for the Winter Olympics. It is an individual race with different distances favoring different competitors. The biathlon consists of 7.5km, 10km, and 20 km races called sprints. If betting for an individual is not your style, there is also a relay race. In the relay race people must chose what country they think will finish the fastest. People can bet on both the men and women in this event. Listed below are the men’s odds for the 2010 Biathlon, women’s odds can be seen by visiting www.bodog.com

2010 Olympic Biathlon Betting Odds

Men Individual
Emil Svenden +260
Ole Bjoerndalen +289
Field -160

Mass Start
Ole Bjoerndalen +199
Emil Svenden +400
Field -160

Pursuit
Ole Bjoerndalen +200
Emil Svenden +450
Field -174

Sprint
Ole Bjoerndalen +183
Emil Svenden +467
Field -164

Team
Norway +127
Austria +465
Russia +231
France +1163
Field +557

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If you are unsure on how to read the above Biathlon odds we will try and explain it for you. In the mass start we believe Ole Bjoerndalen will capture the gold medal in this event. Ole Bjoerndalen has the odds of +199 placed beside his name. An easy way of calculating this is pretending you are gong to place a wager of $100. A $100 bet on Ole would produce a profit of $199. This gives the bettor a grand total of $299 if Ole Bjoerndalen wins the gold medal. So at +199 odds a $10 bet would pay out $19 for a total of $29, understand?

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