Winter Olympics Betting: Day 7 - Friday February 19

Daily Bet / Tobias Gourlay / 19 February 2010 / Leave a comment

Laetitia Hubert has been this column's guiding star through the first week of Vancouver 2010.

Tobias Gourlay's failure to land the 180 Double McTwist brings back memories of Albertville '92.

Bet of the Day: Back Michael Walchhofer at [23.0] to be Gold Medal Winner in Men’s Super-G

It's rarely admitted - and when it is it comes with a caveat about not wanting anyone to be seriously hurt - but there's a lot of Winter Olympics followers who are mostly looking out for the crashes, the falls and the wipe-outs.

Well, this column has made like Laetitia Hubert and, bless its heart, it's exhausted, but its readers should be more satisfied than most. Yesterday it fell with Lindsey Vonn as she hooked a tip 20 seconds from the finish line of the slalom run of the super combined, having lead the competition after the downhill run.

Team Canada's Jeff Pain would have made a nicely charactonymic bet to end the first week, but he's no longer a plausible contender in the men's skeleton. And the markets say Team GB's Amy Williams has all but won the women's event (are you sure?), leaving only two other gold medals to be awarded today. There's the women's 15km cross-country pursuit and, a shade more excitingly, there is the men's Super-G.

Manuel Osborne-Paradis is only one step from heaven, but seemed a lot further off during his wretched downhill run. Bode Miller ([9.0]) started out as a slalom specialist and has the right combination of speed and technique, but, if you don't want all of your beers in the same crate (remember he's still to go for us in the super-combined), then Michael Walchhofer, another convert from slalom, is available at [23.0].

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