Betting the games

Tennessee is one of the states with legalized sports betting that is offering sports wagering on the upcoming Olympic Games. Each of the sites have several promotions. Here are a couple of the more interesting ones:

› At FanDuel, if you wager at least $100 total on the Olympics, you will get $1 (up to $50) in site credit for each gold medal the U.S. wins.

› At DraftKings, the odds on the heavily favored U.S. Women’s soccer team have been reduced to even money, meaning if you bet $100 you win $100.

As for some of the more strange propositional bets available:

› Over/under number of U.S. Gold medals is 43.5.

› You can wager on the nation of a champion of any event, thus limiting the risk. Of course the odds are higher, especially when it comes to Nigerian distance runners.

› You can bet in sports or across multiple days whether world records will be broken as well.