Well, this should be great.
The Vegas odds are outside to your favorite to win gold, with the semifinals standing in the manner of the men’s ice hockey championship game in the 2018 Winter Olympics. And that favorite, as of Wednesday, is a nation that does not exist: OAR.
So”OAR” obviously has real people from a true country. However, its full name — Olympic Athletes from Russia — was created so as to not give Russia charge for any of its Winter Olympics accomplishments in South Korea. (This has been the punishment handed down within an Russian ban from the International Olympic Committee in December, the result of a years-long investigation into an alleged state-backed doping plan, which enabled countless Russian athletes to utilize performance-enhancing drugs.)
And yet here we are, with the gold-medal hockey final only around the corner, and Bovada has OAR as the favorite to win it all with -150 chances (meaning you have to bet 3 units to win two ). Cue the awkward podium demonstration, in which the organizers work out the way to crown a nation which, technically, is not at the Olympics at all.
The complete gold-medal chances for men’s ice hockey of bovada are as follows:
OAR: -150
Canada: +200
Czech Republic: +700
Germany: +2500
The Czech Republic, which upset the United States in overtime will face OAR from the semifinals, while Germany will square off with Canada, that has won two Olympic gold medals and three of those last four.
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