Is Betting In The Future Of Open Water Swimming?
A public online betting site is marketing its services for the 2011 World Swimming Championships. “[This event] presents a unique opportunity for sports betting fans to make some good betting predictions and knowledge of previous results, standings, dates and fixtures is a definite advantage. At this point in the live 2011 World Championships betting campaign, winning or losing big money all depends on knowing which swimmers and divers are in good recent form!”
The site predicts that “betting on events such as swimming, diving, water polo, synchronized swimming and open water swimming will be most popular. Swimming enthusiasts can choose all kinds of 2011 World Championships betting options in these events…even U.K.-based online bookmakers will offers odds, free bets, and predictions to the fixtures schedule in order to drum up some action during these highlights.”
It will be interesting to see if the world of ‘amateur’ swimming attracts many bettors and online betting sites in the future, especially since pool swimming was the most popular sport discipline at the 2008 Beijing Olympics based on global television viewership.
With the unpredictability of open water swimming, it would be significantly more difficult to accurately predict winners in oceans and lakes compared to the chlorinated pools of the aquatic world.
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Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Citrus Corps, World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is Chief Executive Officer of KAATSU Global and KAATSU Research Institute. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010), USA Swimming's Glen S. Hummer Award (2007, 2010) and Harvard University's John B. Imrie Award (1984). Served on the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and as Technical Delegate with the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and 9-time USA Swimming coaching staff. Note: WOWSA only recommends products or services used or recommended by the community. WOWSA does not receive compensation for links or products mentioned on this site or in blog posts. If it does, it will be indicated clearly on that specific post. See WOWSA's privacy policy for more information.
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