Olympics Sports Betting News
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Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbooks) - USA Volleyball had a dominant week on the
international circuit as they went 5-0 at the World Grand Prix. In the process,
they knocked off defending World Champion China.
The inaugural Youth Olympic Games also came to a close last week after nearly
two we... |
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Lausanne, Switzerland (Sportsbooks) - Russian Evgeni Plushenko had his
eligibility stripped by figure skating's international governing body on
Monday after he failed to appeal a June decision from the International
Skating Union.
The organization cited evidence he co... |
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Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbooks) - The inaugural Youth Olympic Games began
this week in Singapore. The brainchild of IOC President Jacques Rogge, the YOG
welcomes approximately 3,600 athletes ages 14-18 from more than 200 countries
competing in 26 sports.
In taekwondo, Gregory English (Chi... |
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Hartford, CT (Sportsbooks) - Rebecca Bross of Plano, Texas won her first
U.S. gymnastics all-around title Saturday night, edging Mattie Larson by 3.3
points for first place.
Bross had a total score of 120.3 for the four exercises - the vault, uneven
bars, balance beam and floor.... |
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Hartford, CT (Sportsbooks) - Jonathan Horton was crowned U.S. men's
gymnastics champion for a second straight year, beating Danell Leyva by 2.3
points.
Horton, the 2008 Olympic high bar silver-medalist, scored a combined total of
181.65 points. Horton used his strength by ... |
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Hartford, CT (Sportsbooks) - It took 10 years, but the U.S. women's
gymnastics team finally received their bronze medals from the 2000 Summer
Games.
Earlier this year, the International Olympic Committee stripped China of a
team bronze medal because of an underage partic... |
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