Winter Olympics Betting: Day 10 - Monday February 22

Daily Bet / Tobias Gourlay / 22 February 2010 / Leave a comment

Calm before the storm: Might Jeret Peterson be in the right state of mind to finally land the Hurricane?

Tobias Gourlay celebrates Bode Miller's first Olympic gold medal and wonders if Jeret Peterson might care to join them for a pint or 20 later in the week.

Bet of the Day: Back Finland at [4.7] to be Top Three in the Men’s Ski Jumping Team Event

Totally Bodacious! Miller time!

They are lines that have been used before, but who cares when you've an [8.4] winner to celebrate? Hopefully not the Betfair editor. And hopefully he won't dwell either on odds-on Canada's defeat to the USA in the ice hockey last night, when it turned out it was Ryan Miller's time too (the American goaltender saved 42/45 Canadian shots).

There's another American in search of redemption at Vancouver this week. Jeret 'Speedy' Peterson failed to land his signature trick, the Hurricane, in Torino in 2006 and Team USA ended up medal-less in the men's freestyle aerials for the first time since the event was introduced at Lillehammer '94. Like Bode Miller, Peterson has been an undisciplined boozer in the past - he was sent home early from Italy four years ago - but, if he has also achieved Miller's new level of serenity, then the man from Bogus Basin, Idaho, is nicely priced at [21.0] to prove he's the real deal.

Aerials qualification begins today (well, 0200 GMT tomorrow), but the medals aren't handed out until Thursday (well, 0200 GMT Friday). If you can't wait until then, today's medal events include the men's team ski jumping, for which the value bet seems to be Finland, the most successful nation in the Olympic history of the sport, at [4.7] to finish in the top three.

Tags: Betfair Winter Olympics Daily Bet, Bode Miller, Freestyle Aerials, Jeret Peterson, Ski Jumping Team Event, Tobias Gourlay, Vancouver 2010, Winter Olympics 2010