Results for tag: london
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Betting.Betfair
on Aug 6, 2012 at 11:03:06 AM
[b]Another week of competition begins at London 2012. Many events are just beginning, but there are still medals to be won today and Richard O'Hagan previews the best of them...[/b]
Beth Tweddle has won gold at every major championship except one. The Olympics. Today she has a chance to put that right in the final of the asymetric bars competition. After the men's team racked up three medals (two bronze and a silver) the women are desperate to win a medal of their own. Tweddle, former world champion on this piece of apparatus, represents their best chance of doing. It is her last Olympics and there would be no more fitting send-off for the 27-year-old than a medal in the event for which she is rekowned. She's a 2.3 chance to win gold, but in that market the best bet is overall winner...
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Dec 1, 2010 at 10:01:25 AM
The snow is falling. More importantly, we've just moved into the 30 day bandwidth for Met Office advance weather forecasts. It's time to consider our 2010 White Christmas bets!
In preparation, I went to a seminar on cyclical recurrence and how to apply this advantageously to betting markets. In the bar afterwards I was in conversation with a [b]Worzel Gummidge[/b] lookalike (how do I always attract these characters in the bar after seminars?) who was convinced the current cold snap (and last winter in the UK) was pre-cursor to a 200 year cyclical return to the mini ice age of the 1500 to 1800s in Britain.
" 1813 was the occasion of the last frost fair on the Thames in London and my thinking is that they'll be back as a regular feature of British life by [b]2013[/b]. Winters are going...