Winter Olympics Betting: Day 15 - Saturday February 27

Daily Bet / Tobias Gourlay / 27 February 2010 / Leave a comment

Miller time and time again: It's not in the French-speaking bit of Canada, but you can still get deja vu in Vancouver.

Tobias Gourlay's suggestions for how not to win money on the Winter Olympics are getting awfully familiar.

Bet of the Day: Back Bode Miller at [8.2] to be Top Three in Men’s Slalom

Vancouver 2010's official website notes today that 'controversial American Apolo Anton Ohno was disqualified for causing a pile-up around the final turn in the four-way race.' Indisputably, he was disqualified from the men's 500m short track last night. But 'controversial American'? Sure, the South Koreans don't like him much, but is that really what's being referred to? Or is it that he's 'controversial' simply for being an American in Canada?

Either way, with the host nation having belatedly claimed proprietary rights of the medal rostrum, it now seems unnecessary. And he didn't stop Team Canada's Charles Hamelin winning gold in his event. All very unfair: Apolo is very popular in some parts of the world, particularly those where they don't have many medallists to celebrate. (Not Great Britain at large, I mean this column specifically. Heaven forfend any more controversy, even if Apolo does have twice as many medals from the last three Olympics as Team GB.)

There's no good reason for getting worked up about all of this. It's just that this column needs to meet its word count to get paid and there aren't many events to go now. And it doesn't fancy writing too much about Finland's 6-1 defeat to the USA in the men's ice hockey.

Apologies for that. Redemption, though, is a dish best served fresh, and today's suggestion is a familiar one. He is 'so fired up' that he will be 'going absolutely full gas'. His coach's metaphor is questionable, but Bode Miller's enthusiasm for the slalom, his first love and now the only discipline in which he lacks an Olympic medal, is not.

Tags: Apolo Ohno, Bode Miller, Charles Hamelin, Men's Ice Hockey, Men's Slalom, Tobias Gourlay, Vancouver 2010 Betting, Winter Olympics Tips