Olympic Games Betting

Try 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 sports betting section as events and markets are listed for Los Angeles 2028.

The 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.

The 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.

For 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.

Most Gold Medals

A 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.

Paris 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.

Most Medals

Here, 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.

Perhaps 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.

Team GB Medal Totals

For 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.

Team 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.

Athletics and Swimming

A 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?

Our athletics betting 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.

Look 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.

Olympic Football

You 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.

The 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.

Our football betting 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.

Olympic Basketball

An 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?

There 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.

When browsing basketball betting, 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.

Boxing and Other Olympic Events

An 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.

If you follow our boxing odds 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.

There 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.

The 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.

That 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.

The 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.

Selected countries shown, ordered by gold medals. This is not the complete Paris medal table.

You 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.

Imagine 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.

Some 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.

During 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.

Your 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.

Find 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.

Read 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.