Winter Olympics Betting: Day 9 - Sunday February 21

Daily Bet / Tobias Gourlay / 21 February 2010 / Leave a comment

Team USA and Sid the Kid. Best of enemies. Deadliest of friends.

Tobias Gourlay worships Apolo Ohno but takes a slap shot at Team USA.

Bet of the Day: Back Canada at [1.65] to beat USA in Men’s Ice Hockey

Caaraazzzy indeed. Apolo Anton Ohno finished third in the men's 1,000m short track yesterday and overtook long-track legend Bonnie Blair to become the most decorated American in the history of the Winter Olympics. With his seventh medal Apolo enters the pantheon of winners for this column. It's an undersized pantheon of one at the moment, but the intention to grow it is there.

A Team USA-centric approach (remember that Bode Miller is due to go in the rescheduled super combined today) seems reasonable - the Americans have more gold medals and more medals of any colour than anyone else - but today there is good cause to oppose them as they play Canada in the men's ice hockey. The winners get a bye to the quarter finals.

Both countries have picked entire squads of millionaires from the NHL, which is mostly an American league, but it's Canada who have the best of them. The Olympic hosts have nine NHL captains on their roster, twice as many Stanley Cup rings between them and a talented young chap named Sidney 'The Kid' Crosby at centre. Canada defers to Uncle Sam in lots of areas of life, but defiantly not in hockey. Team USA sure could use Emilio Estevez right now.

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