Sports betting in the month of July has been outstanding. For all the haters out there who take pleasure in bemoaning the sportsbetting online during the dog days of summer, the evidence this year simply doesn’t support that flawed, though often repeated, sportsbetting adage. Take exhibit A: the Tour de France which is gearing up for the final week of racing.
Sportsbetting odds makers and fans alike have had their hands full trying to decipher the favorite in this competition. With the climbing, sprinting and time trialing all mixed together to create the prefect cycling event, it’s hard to stay on top of the sports betting online competition. Things have been even murkier so far in the 2009 Tour as the first two weeks have seen very conservative strategies from the sportsbetting favorites.
Team Astana has sat back and watched the other teams do the work, content to keep close to the leaders in the standings, but fail to launch any attack for the yellow jersey. But as the Tour heads into the final week of the sports betting action you can expect to see plenty of fireworks from team Astana and the top individual racers in the sportsbetting online pools as well.
As the Tour heads to its conclusion in Paris the several remaining climbs and time trials will no doubt decide the winner in this year’s sports betting event. Right now there are two names that dominate the list of sports betting online favorites and they are Contador and Armstrong. Before Sunday’s climbing event both were just seconds off the lead and expected to gain plenty of time in the Stage 15 sports betting competition, with one of them claiming the yellow jersey for the first time in the 2009 competition.
During that stage the first big moves in two weeks in the sportsbetting standings took place and Contador seized the day the yellow jersey. With a day of rest and then several more climbs and a time trial Contador has firmly planted himself atop the list of contenders this year. Armstrong struggled to the second place overall standings in the sports betting competition but did not look dominant.
Astana looks in firm control of the Tour now with the other sports betting teams left to fight over whatever stage wins they might be able to rack up before Paris. With only a week of racing every stage now counts much more than before and if you’re a fan of the cycling sports betting, you do not want to miss a day of the action.