{"title":"Olympic Games Betting | Olympics Betting | BetVictor","description":"Explore Olympics betting at BetVictor ahead of LA 2028. Read about medal markets, Team GB totals, individual sports and Olympic combination bets.","custom_path":"/en-gb/sports/968800","heading":"Olympic Games Betting","heading_tag":"h1","nofollow":false,"noindex":false,"has_custom_schema":true,"schema_json":[{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","item":{"@id":"https://www.betvictor.com/en-gb","name":"Online Sports Betting"},"position":1},{"@type":"ListItem","item":{"@id":"https://www.betvictor.com/en-gb/sports","name":"Sports Betting Odds \u0026 Markets"},"position":2},{"@type":"ListItem","item":{"@id":"https://www.betvictor.com/en-gb/sports/968800","name":"Olympic Games Betting"},"position":3}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"When are the Los Angeles Olympics?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"The LA 2028 Olympic Games run from 14–30 July 2028, with some competition scheduled before the Opening Ceremony. Check the individual sport’s timetable for session dates and times."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"Can you bet on Olympic medals?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Look for medal selections among the markets listed for the Games. These can concern an individual medal, a country’s total or which nation collects the most golds. Availability and settlement terms are shown with the market."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"What is the difference between most gold medals and most medals?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Most golds counts first-place medals only. Most medals combines gold, silver and bronze. At Paris 2024, the USA and China each won 40 golds, while their overall totals were 126 and 91 respectively."}}]}],"has_toc":false,"alternate_languages":[],"copy_sections":[{"toc_title":"","title":"\u003ch2 class=\"bvs-h2\"\u003eOlympics Betting Odds \u0026amp; Markets: Los Angeles 2028\u003c/h2\u003e","content":"\u003cp\u003eTry following the Olympics with just one screen. A race is about to start, a team you follow is deep into a deciding match and there are medal results coming in elsewhere. Olympic betting brings those very different contests into the same fortnight. Find the available Olympics odds within our \u003ca href=\"https://www.betvictor.com/en-gb/sports\"\u003esports betting\u003c/a\u003e section as events and markets are listed for Los Angeles 2028.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe next Summer Games run from 14–30 July 2028. Paris is now part of the record book, and the hosts this time are the United States. There is a different programme to get to grips with too, including the arrival of squash and flag football and the return of cricket.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"toc_title":"","title":"\u003ch2 class=\"bvs-h2\"\u003eWhen Are the Next Summer Olympics?\u003c/h2\u003e","content":"\u003cp\u003eThe opening celebration in Los Angeles is on 14 July 2028, with the Games closing on 30 July. There will already have been competition by opening night. Find your sport in the timetable first if you want to follow it from the start.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor UK viewers, the time beside a fixture matters. Los Angeles is eight hours behind British Summer Time in July. A final held during the Californian evening can therefore fall in the early hours of the following morning at home.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"toc_title":"","title":"\u003ch2 class=\"bvs-h2\"\u003eOlympic Medal Betting Markets\u003c/h2\u003e","content":"\u003ch3 class=\"bvs-h3\"\u003eMost Gold Medals\u003c/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA country can win plenty of silvers and bronzes without helping a most-golds selection. This market concentrates on first places, making the strength of a nation’s leading contenders especially relevant.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParis supplied a useful example. The United States and China both won 40 golds in 2024. The USA headed the medal table on silver medals, but you should not assume a most-golds bet uses that same tie-break. Read the market’s settlement rules to see what happens when countries finish level.\u003c/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"bvs-h3\"\u003eMost Medals\u003c/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, gold, silver and bronze all contribute to the total. In Paris, the USA finished with 126 medals against China’s 91, a much bigger gap than the gold count suggested.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerhaps one nation has the strongest gold prospect in three events, while another keeps putting athletes on the podium without winning. In this market, those second and third places keep adding up.\u003c/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"bvs-h3\"\u003eTeam GB Medal Totals\u003c/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a worked example, put Team GB on a line of 64.5 medals. An over bet is still waiting for its 65th medal when the count reaches 64. An under bet would need the count to stop there or lower. This is not a current quote, and a gold-only line would require a separate calculation.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeam medals need care too. A gold-winning relay squad adds one gold to a country’s medal-table total, rather than one for every runner. The wording of the market explains the count used for settlement.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"toc_title":"","title":"\u003ch2 class=\"bvs-h2\"\u003eOlympics Betting Across Individual Sports\u003c/h2\u003e","content":"\u003ch3 class=\"bvs-h3\"\u003eAthletics and Swimming\u003c/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fast time in May is interesting, but the medal may depend on getting through heats and producing another performance in the final. Watch the competition around that time as well. Was the athlete pushed all the way, or were they able to ease through?\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur \u003ca href=\"https://www.betvictor.com/en-gb/sports/22885\"\u003eathletics betting\u003c/a\u003e section covers the available track-and-field markets beyond the Games too. For an Olympic selection, check the precise discipline. A sprinter might lose the 100m and come back to win over 200m. It is easy to remember the name you backed while forgetting which race your bet actually covers.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLook at the swimmer’s whole evening, including any relay duties, before settling on a view. They could be preparing for another race while a rival has only the one event to think about.\u003c/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"bvs-h3\"\u003eOlympic Football\u003c/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou can spend a season watching a country’s best footballers and then find some of them are absent from its Olympic squad. Work from the players who have been selected. There is little use judging an attack around a striker who has stayed with their club.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe men’s and women’s tournaments also need separate study. For LA28, the programme provides for 12 men’s teams and 16 women’s teams. Senior internationals contest the women’s tournament. For the men, age restrictions and the allowance for older players affect who can be picked.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur \u003ca href=\"https://www.betvictor.com/en-gb/sports/240\"\u003efootball betting\u003c/a\u003e section has the listed matches and markets. Read the wording particularly carefully in a knockout tie. If you back a 90-minute win, a successful shootout will not rescue the selection after a draw in normal time.\u003c/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"bvs-h3\"\u003eOlympic Basketball\u003c/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn impressive list of NBA players can make a team look irresistible on paper. Then comes the question of how they share the court. Who handles the ball, who gets the shots and how much time have they had together?\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is less regulation playing time than in the NBA, among other rule differences. Take that into account before using a familiar NBA scoring average to judge a points selection.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen browsing \u003ca href=\"https://www.betvictor.com/en-gb/sports/227\"\u003ebasketball betting\u003c/a\u003e, check whether you have opened five-a-side or 3x3. Switching between them means learning a different scoring system as well as a different field.\u003c/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"bvs-h3\"\u003eBoxing and Other Olympic Events\u003c/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn Olympic boxer has a tournament to negotiate, potentially facing several opponents on the way to a medal. Two boxers you fancy might be in the same half of the draw. However well they fight, you cannot have both of them in the final.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you follow our \u003ca href=\"https://www.betvictor.com/en-gb/sports/238\"\u003eboxing odds\u003c/a\u003e for professional bouts, revisit the Olympic rules before assessing these contests. You are watching a different competition, with shorter fights than the long title bouts familiar from the professional schedule.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are also tennis draws, golf leaderboards, cycling races and plenty more to follow. You do not have to form a betting opinion on all of them.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"toc_title":"","title":"\u003ch2 class=\"bvs-h2\"\u003eWhat Changes at LA 2028?\u003c/h2\u003e","content":"\u003cp\u003eThe additional sports approved for Los Angeles are baseball/softball, cricket in the T20 format, flag football, lacrosse sixes and squash. Some are returning sports; flag football and squash make their Olympic debuts.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat programme is another reason to revisit medal predictions rather than copying the Paris table. There are different opportunities, and the teams that qualify will shape the contest. Inclusion in the Games does not, by itself, mean a betting market will be offered on every event.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"toc_title":"","title":"\u003ch2 class=\"bvs-h2\"\u003eParis 2024 Medal Results\u003c/h2\u003e","content":"\u003cp\u003eThe last Summer Games show why the medal market’s wording matters. Great Britain collected more medals overall than France, but France won more golds. Neither figure is a prediction for Los Angeles.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"raw-html-embed\"\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\r\n\u003ctbody\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\r\n    \u003cth\u003eCountry\u003c/th\u003e\r\n    \u003cth\u003eGold\u003c/th\u003e\r\n    \u003cth\u003eSilver\u003c/th\u003e\r\n    \u003cth\u003eBronze\u003c/th\u003e\r\n    \u003cth\u003eTotal\u003c/th\u003e\r\n\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003eUnited States\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e40\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e44\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e42\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e126\u003c/td\u003e\r\n\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003eChina\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e40\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e27\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e24\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e91\u003c/td\u003e\r\n\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003eJapan\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e20\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e12\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e13\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e45\u003c/td\u003e\r\n\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003eAustralia\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e18\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e19\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e16\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e53\u003c/td\u003e\r\n\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003eFrance\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e16\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e26\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e22\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e64\u003c/td\u003e\r\n\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003eGreat Britain\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e14\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e22\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e29\u003c/td\u003e\r\n    \u003ctd\u003e65\u003c/td\u003e\r\n\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003c/tbody\u003e\u003c/table\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected countries shown, ordered by gold medals. This is not the complete Paris medal table.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"toc_title":"","title":"\u003ch2 class=\"bvs-h2\"\u003eOlympics Combination Bets\u003c/h2\u003e","content":"\u003cp\u003eYou may be able to combine selections from different Olympic events, subject to the markets and combinations available. Every required leg of an accumulator must succeed for the full bet to win.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImagine backing a country to win basketball gold and one of its swimmers to win a named final. They are two separate tasks, even if you expect the country to have a strong Games overall. Adding a third selection gives you another result to get right.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome picks cannot be combined because they are related. A named athlete winning gold could directly affect a country-medal selection. Use the slip to check which combinations are accepted and what the full stake will be.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"toc_title":"","title":"\u003ch2 class=\"bvs-h2\"\u003eLive Olympics Betting\u003c/h2\u003e","content":"\u003cp\u003eDuring selected contests, you can open the event to see whether any live prices are being offered. There may be a much smaller choice than before the start, and a market you have been watching can be suspended.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour screen may be behind the action. By the time you see the finish, the market might already be closed. Allow for that delay, and decide on a spending limit for the session before the overlapping events start.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"toc_title":"","title":"\u003ch2 class=\"bvs-h2\"\u003eHow to Bet on the Olympics\u003c/h2\u003e","content":"\u003cp\u003eFind the listed contest after signing in to BetVictor. Its prices open a selection on your slip, where you can enter a stake and see the potential return. Anyone joining will need to register and complete the required checks before betting.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRead the event back on the slip. Have you picked the heat or the final? It is an easy detail to overlook when you recognise the athlete’s name, and one good race will not settle every market on that athlete.\u003c/p\u003e"}]}