GAMES BETTING
Bookies back Richard Murray for SA’s first medal
Murray priced up at 2-1 for a medal at the Commonwealth Games men’s triathlon
Gold Coast — All the experts have been predicting it, but now the online bookmakers agree. Richard Murray will earn SA’s first medal of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia. Murray finished fourth behind England’s Brownlee brothers at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and this time he has been priced up at 2-1 to be the meat in the Brownlee men’s triathlon sandwich. Jonathan Brownlee is the marginal 18-10 favourite with the South African fancied for the silver medal, followed by Alistair Brownlee, with Henri Schoeman fourth favourite at 9-1. The other South African in the race, Wian Sullwald, is eighth in the betting, at 33-1. In the women’s triathlon, the Team SA pairing of Gillian Saunders and Simone Ackermann are considered outsiders, at 33-1 and 50-1, with Bermuda’s world champion Flora Duffy an odds-on favourite at 4-10. The mixed triathlon team are currently tipped to finish fourth, behind England, Australia and New Zealand. Other markets involving South Africans are (athletics odds ...
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