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I think its safe to say that things havent gone smoothly in Vancouver over the past week or so; the malfunctioning of the torch in the opening ceremony was just the first in a long line of malfunctions at this years Olympic Games. Weve seen the organizers shipping in snow, 20,000 spectators prevented from watching the snowboarding after some people fell between the bails of hay underneath the snow, fans only able to see the Olympic cauldron from behind a fence that wouldnt look out of place in a prison, timing blunders during the biathlon, numerous postponed events and cancelled practices, the speed skating track turning into slush. And, not forgetting the death of death of a Georgian luger on day one which kind of makes everything else insignificant.
But still, it would be nice to have a couple of incident free days in Vancouver. Wednesdays hockey contest between the Canada and Sweden women sounds like a good place to start. In the build up to the game, Canada have beaten Slovakia and Switzerland and outscored their opponents 28-1; Sweden have been less dominant but dispatched Switzerland 3-0 and yesterday Slovakia 6-2. Both teams have already qualified for the semi-final next week and tomorrows meeting will merely decide the seeding. Sweden are obviously no match for Canada but they are no rollover like China; the moneyline on a Sweden win would be well above +3000 but a +5.5 spread (priced +100 at The Greek and +106 at Pinnacle) on a game where Canada dont need to try looks nice.
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But still, it would be nice to have a couple of incident free days in Vancouver. Wednesdays hockey contest between the Canada and Sweden women sounds like a good place to start. In the build up to the game, Canada have beaten Slovakia and Switzerland and outscored their opponents 28-1; Sweden have been less dominant but dispatched Switzerland 3-0 and yesterday Slovakia 6-2. Both teams have already qualified for the semi-final next week and tomorrows meeting will merely decide the seeding. Sweden are obviously no match for Canada but they are no rollover like China; the moneyline on a Sweden win would be well above +3000 but a +5.5 spread (priced +100 at The Greek and +106 at Pinnacle) on a game where Canada dont need to try looks nice.
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