An account of COVID-19 was the cancelation of numerous major sporting events. None more significant than the 2020 Olympic Summer Games from Tokyo, Japan. For gamblers Olympic games betting is a two-week period of continuous action. Consider that Japan was to host 339 events in 33 sports with over 11000 athletes. Betting handle for the Olympic Games dwarfs most other major sporting events. In essence, the Olympic Games are the ultimate sports gambling buffet.
Tokyo Rescheduled for 2021
Fortunately for Tokyo, they didn’t lose the entire Olympic Games altogether. Alternatively, the Olympic Games were simply postponed one year to 2021. Tokyo has hosted the Summer Olympics once before in 1964. Japan twice hosted the Winter Olympics in 1972 and 1998. Specifically, the 2021 Games of the XXXII Olympiad will take place on July 23, 2021, through August 8, 2021. There will be a total of seven venues that will be used for the online betting action. Japan National Stadium will be the main facility.
Athletes to Watch for 2021 Summer Olympics
Dina Asher-Smith – Great Britain – 100m, 200m, 4x100m
Dina Asher-Smith of Great Britain has emerged as one of the top female sprinters in the world. Last year she was the world champion of the 200-meter sprint. For 2016 she made the Summer Olympics final and won the bronze medal for the 4×100 meters. Asher-Smith has a total of three silver and one bronze and one gold medal in her world finals career.
Caleb Dressel – USA – Swimming
On the whole Caleb Dressel is set to emerge as the dominant swimmer of this era. Dressel is 23 years old and competes in the butterfly and freestyle strokes. Dressel has the advantage of having competed already at the 2016 Summer Olympics. More emphatically Dressel took the first of what should be many gold medals for his career. The Olympic Games Betting win was in the 4×100 meter freestyle relay. Michael Phelps, Ryan Held, and Nathan Adrian were his teammates.
Starting with the 2017 world championships did Dressel explode into prominence. He took a total of seven gold medals at the event held in Budapest, Hungary. As a result of his dominance, he was named a male swimmer of the meet. In like manner at the 2019 world championships, Dressel won a total of six gold and two silver medals.
Pat McCormick – Great Britain – Boxing
Late on Great Britain has won a total of eight boxing medals in the past two Summer Olympic Games. McCormick is 24 years old and has several significant championships. Correlate gold medals at the 2018 EU championship and 2018 Commonwealth Games. Further, McCormick won the gold at the 2019 European Games. He fights in the welterweight division.
Eliza McCartney – New Zealand – Pole Vault
Four years ago, McCartney emerged as an Olympic athletic presence with a bronze medal at the Rio Olympics. To show, McCartney has silver medals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and 2015 Summer Universiade. Along with her 2016 Olympic Games bronze, she won 2014 bronze world championships.
Kyle Masse – Canada – Swimming
Masse is a 23-year-old emerging superstar from Ontario. Most important of all she has won each and every 100m backstroke race since her emergence in Rio. While at the 2016 Olympic Games Masse pulled off the upset to take a 100m backstroke bronze medal. Following that was back to back world titles in that same event.