The next big sporting event of the calendar year is Rio 2016. The Olympic Games are rapidly approaching a bookmakers have been setting the bar for British athletes. Online betting site Sky Bet have set Team GB at 53.5 medals. So that is where the over/under line is for Team GB as they head out to Rio and both outcomes on that market is 5/6 with Sky Bet.
Team GB would only need to reach the target of 48 medals which will then make it their most successful Olympics ever overseas. Four years ago at London 2012, Team GB walked off with a massive 65 medal haul, which crushed their best ever tally which was set at 47 in the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Team GB’s target of 48 has been set because no host nation has ever gone into the following Olympics and bettered that haul.
UK Sport director of performance Simon Timson has previously said that 79 medals would be the best possible outcome for Team GB if the “stars align and things go perfectly”. One sports statistics company, Infostrada has predicted a 51 medal haul for Team GB with 18 of those being gold.
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