Winter Olympics Betting: Day 14 - Friday February 26

Daily Bet / Tobias Gourlay / 26 February 2010 / Leave a comment

Finnish them: Can Miika Kiprusoff, the ice-hockey tournament's best goalkeeper, stop Team USA?

Tobias Gourlay pads up for the men's ice-hockey semi-finals.

Bet of the Day: Back Finland at [3.4] to beat USA in Regular Time in Men’s Ice Hockey

Our man Jeret Peterson landed the triple-flipping, quintuple-spinning Hurricane in competition for the first time since 2007 yesterday. None of the other aerialists dared try anything that scored as much as 4.9/5 on the difficulty multiplier, but (questionable?) judges determined that Belarus's Alexei Grishin did better, even if his triple-flipping final jump included only four spins.

Silver doesn't dim the all-American story of Speedy, who's overcome alleged sexual abuse, the death of a half-sister, the suicide of a room-mate and the paralysis by freestyle skiing of a close friend to win his medal, but it doesn't pay out to those who backed him to win gold.

Second place for the American women's ice-hockey team wasn't good enough to make yesterday's bet a winner either. They lost the latest battle of their border war with Canada 2-0. Their compatriots are still alive in the semi-finals of the men's competition and favourites to beat Finland at 2000 GMT today. But the Finns have a silver, a bronze and a very narrow defeat to world-leading Canada to show for the three previous Olympics at which professional NHL players have been allowed. Have they been undervalued again at [3.4] to beat the USA in regular time?

Finally, a brief mention for Apolo Ohno, a favourite of this column's after winning his seventh Olympic medal in the 1,000m short track on Saturday. He goes for his eighth and ninth this evening in the 500m and the 5,000m relay. He's the reigning champ in the former event and can be had at [2.16] to finish Top Three.

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