{"id":3316,"date":"2018-02-08T20:46:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T20:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/?p=3316"},"modified":"2018-02-08T21:11:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T21:11:40","slug":"winter-olympics-can-team-gb-deliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/news-events\/winter-olympics-can-team-gb-deliver\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics – Can Team GB deliver?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great Britain have arrived in South Korea for the Winter Olympics with expectations of them being the most successful team this country has ever sent \u2013 but the Bookmakers think they will fall short.<\/p>\n

Team GB\u2019s record at a Winter games is four medals, something they achieved in 1924 and also last time out in Russia in 2014.<\/p>\n

Now with a squad of nearly 60 athletes \u2013 their biggest ever – UK Sport wants at least 4 and up to 10 medals.<\/p>\n

Bookmakers are not confident, and they are odds-on to get under 3 at 4\/9, whilst above that tally is 31\/20.<\/p>\n

\u201cTeam GB have some great medal prospects, but only two contenders are odds-on to land metal-ware in\u00a0Pyeongchang,\u201d said OddsMonkey spokesman Peter Watton.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe curling arena, as we are used to now, is a British Winter Olympics cornerstone and having picked up medals with both the men’s\u00a0and women’s teams last time \u2013 they are again fancied to do well, with women 9\/10 to claim a medal under skip Eve Muirhead \u2013 who won a bronze in Sochi.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe next best hope is speed skating superstar Elise Christie \u2013 she has three chances but it is in the shortest distance of 500m where she is one of the favourites for the Gold medal\u00a0at 11\/4,.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndeed we agree with the Bookmakers here \u2013 backing Scottish women seems to be best chance you have of making money off the back of the British in South Korea in the shape of Christie and Muirhead.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf the other chances \u2013 Lizzy Arnold can\u2019t be ruled out to medal as she defends her Skeleton title, whilst GB have two teams in the four-man Bobsleigh and they are certainly not without a chance on the mountain, whilst alpine skier Dave Ryding has established himself as a world class performer in the slalom, and on his day he has a real chance of making the podium.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverall the Bookmakers are not fancying Team GB to do as well as they did in Russia, but that in part will be down to the loss of snowboarder Katie Ormerod who has pulled out on the eve of the Olympics with a broken heel suffered in training \u2013 she was a real medal hope and is a huge blow for the squad.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Bookies are now 4\/9 on them claiming just two medals \u2013 that is a near 70% chance, but we think there could be real value here \u2013 if the curling teams deliver as they did in Russia, then you are already there! We think the negative Bookmakers are onto a loser here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Selected Winter Olympics odds:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Team GB less than 3 medals – 4\/9
\nTeam GB more than 3 medals – 31\/20
\nElise Christie 500m gold 11\/4
\nWomen’s curling gold 13\/2<\/p>\n

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Great Britain have arrived in South Korea for the Winter Olympics with expectations of them being the most successful team this country has ever sent \u2013 but the Bookmakers think they will fall short. Team GB\u2019s record at a Winter games is four medals, something they achieved in 1924 and also last time out in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":""},"categories":[74,1640,93,2703],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[4367,3351,115,3621,4374,4379,4368,4369,4375,4371,4370,4177,2337,3278,2773,4365,2850,4372,4366,4373],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3316"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3323,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions\/3323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3316"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}