Chicago has best odds to host the 2016 Olympics
October 2, 2009
The hosts of the 2016 Olympics will be decided today at 18.00 (BST), there are four cities spread across four continents that are waiting to hear if they have been chosen to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Currently Chicago is looking the favourite to be chosen (but lets not forget Paris were looking good for 2012), closely followed by Rio, but as Brazil has been chosen for the 2014 World Cup this might go against them.
Whatever city is decided to host the event they will have to brace themselves for the amazing costs that are associated with being the host city, London which was chosen to host the 2010 Olympics has already seen costs rocket, the budget was originally slated for around £5 billion and has almost doubled to £9.3 billion.
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Flora London Marathon betting odds
April 24, 2009
The annual Flora London Marathon is not one of the major sporting events that attracts a lot of betting as the runners are not always household names but with celebrity entrants becoming more prominent more and more eyes are on the event which can only increase the profile of the true runners in this exhausting endurance event. This year will Katie Price (Jordan) , Peter Andre and Gordon Ramsey
The race takes place on Sunday 26th April, with the men’s race starting at 9:50, the race can be watched live on BBC 1 with a choice of camera views available with the pressing of the red button.
Ladbrokes are offering a full race card on the major runners in the 2009 marathon.
2009 London Marathon Outright Winner
Kenya’s Martin Lel is confident looking for a record fourth London Marathon title on Sunday even though he is in recovery from an injury to his hip, last year he set a course record of two hours five minutes and 15 seconds to win the event and is therefore the favourite for this years race.
- 11/8 – Martin Lel
- 5/2 – Sammy Wanjiru
- 7/1 – Tsegaye Kebede
- 7/1 – Zersenay Tadese
- 10/1 – Jaouad Gharib
- 12/1 – Abderrahim Goumri
- 20/1 – Felix Limo
- 25/1 – Emmanuel Matai
- 25/1 – Khalid Khannouchi
- 25/1 – Viktor Rothlin
- 40/1 – Hendrick Ramaala
- 40/1 – Yonas Kifle
- 66/1 – Hicham Bellani
- 66/1 – Tessema Abshiro
- 100/1 – Dathan Ritzenhein
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