Rebecca Addlington looks in good shape to claim her second medal of the London 2012 Games and this time it should be a gold. The defending 800m Freestyle champion made a comfortable passage through to Friday’s final, qualifying with the fastest time. Addlington won bronze in the 400m on Sunday now lines up her strongest event. Addlington is the current World Champion as well as Olympic Champion in the discipline and the gold medal is only going to come down between herself and Denmark’s Lotte Friis. The British swimmer will be pushed hard by the Dane and don’t be too surprised to see a world record get broken here because the two will know that they will have to produce their best to get the better of their opponent. Still, it is Addlington who should just have the edge, especially with the experience of winning Olympic gold before.
Addlington is trading at 2/5 favourite with online bookmaker Bet365, but Lotte Friis is not too far back at a price of 2/1. No-one else in the field really looks as if they have the pace or quality to get near to those two, so the Women’s 800m Freestyle final should be a two horse race.
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