2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Men’s Snowboarding PGS Odds

Last Updated on February 22, 2010 9:19 pm by drew

Men’s PGS Odds

A competitive field headlined by two favorites will race to win the gold medal in the Men’s PGS Snowboarding event at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

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PGS stands for parallel giant slalom and according to vancouver2010.com, in this event two snowboarders race head-to-head down a course, turning through a series of gates. The fastest goes on to the next round. The top finishers compete in a total of nine runs.

For this competition Jasey Jay Anderson and Benjamin Karl are favored to win the gold.

These two have odds of 3/1 to win the gold medal according to online sports book Brobury Sports. Other short odds to win are Andreas Prommegger (4/1) and Michael Lambert (5/1).

Anderson is a two-time world champion in this event, including the defending champion. He also won the title in 2005. He competes for

Canada and he placed 20^th in the 2006 Olympics.

Karl competes for

Austria and he holds seven World Cup event victories and one world championship.

Prommegger also competes for

Austria and he finished ninth at the 2006 Olympics. He is a two-time juniors world champion in the pgs and he has also won one World Cup event in his career.

Lambert competes for

Canada and he was second in the 2006 World Junior Championships. He recently won the World Cup event in the PGS on Jan. 17.

The 2010 Winter Olympics take place from

Vancouver,
British Columbia,
Canada and began on Friday, Feb. 12. They will be concluding on Sunday, Feb. 28. For complete odds on which athlete will win the men’s snowboarding pgs event, see below.

Odds to win the Men’s Snowboarding PGS at 2010 Winter Olympics

Jasey Jay Anderson 3/1    

Benjamin Karl 3/1    

Andreas Prommegger 4/1    

Michael Lambert 5/1    

Matthew Morison 8/1    

Simon Schoch 10/1    

Mathieu Bozzetto 16/1    

Siegfried Grabner 16/1    

Rok Marguc 16/1    

Rok Flander 20/1    

Patrick Bussler 20/1    

Marc Iselin 33/1    

Tyler Jewell 40/1    

Roland Fischnaller 50/1    

Roland Haldi 100/1    

Stanislav Detkov 125/1    

Izidor Sustersic 125/1    

Sylvain Dufour 125/1    

Daniel Biveson 125/1    

Anton Unterkofler 125/1    

Kasper Fluetsch 125/1    

Aaron March 125/1    

Nevin Galmarini 125/1    

Adam Mc Leish 150/1    

Christopher Klug 150/1    

Ingemar Walder 150/1   

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Posted: 2/22/10 9:19PM ET