Britain’s golden girl of the track, Vicky Pendleton (pictured), is a
hot favourite to win Olympic Sprint gold and leave the Cycling game a true
legend of the game after her stunning Keirin win and it’s hard to argue with
that. Since the start of the games she’s been in scintillating form, breaking a
world record with Varnish in the sprint despite being 0.3 seconds down starting
her lap – even if she did start it too early – and she secured the
all-important top seeding with an Olympic record in qualifying, going 0.081
seconds quicker than Australian rival Anna Meares, who couldn’t even medal (fifth)in
the Kierin. Meares is sure to give her all but Pendleton looks to have mastered
her tactically as well as with raw speed, but the biggest rival maybe China’s
Guo Shang, who helped set a world record with Gong Jinjie twice in the team
sprint and was second in the Kierin. Her hopes of beating Vicky look slim but
she shouldn’t be as big as 8/1 and Ladbrokes – the only firm who will go e/w on
this – are 11/2 1/3rd the place for a small profit should she make
the gold medal race, although the best bet might be to sit back and hope for a
small upset.
Advice
1 pt Guo Shang (8/1 Sportingbet)
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