Yes, you can bet on that: The U.S. has the top two favorites in women’s monobob – Yahoo Sports

The 2022 Winter Olympics include a new bobsled event.

Two-woman bobsledding was introduced at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City and joined the two-man and four-man events on the calendar. This year, the womens monobob event makes its debut. And yes, you can bet on it.

The womens monobob is, you guessed it, a one-woman bobsledding event. According to the Olympic website, the event was introduced to promote more women participating in bobsledding.

Monobob participants must do everything themselves. They push the sled, jump in and then steer and brake the sled.

The United States Elana Meyers Taylor is the favorite at BetMGM to win the event at +200. However, Meyers Taylor is currently in COVID-19 isolation in Beijing. She posted a video of herself continuing to train as best she could while in her isolation room earlier this week and was unable to participate in Friday morning's opening ceremony as a flag bearer.

Meyers Taylor is the reigning World Monobob Series champion and is just ahead of fellow American Kallie Humphries at +225. The two American women are the clear favorites for gold in the monobob event. Germanys Laura Nolte is at +500 and Canadians Christine de Bruin and Cynthia Appiah are at +600. Germanys Mariama Jamanka is at +800 and Australias Breeana Walker is at +10000.

The monobob competition begins Feb. 13 likely enough time for Meyers Taylor to clear COVID-19 protocols and participate in the event. The first two heats are on the first day and the final two heats are on Feb. 14. The woman with the best cumulative time across all four heats will win the gold medal.

Elana Meyers Taylor, United States (+200)

Kallie Humphries, United States (+225)

Laura Nolte, Germany (+500)

Christine de Bruin, Canada (+600)

Cynthia Appiah, Canada (+600)

Mariama Jamanka, Germany (+800)

Breeana Walker, Australia (+1000)

Elana Meyers Taylor is the 2022 Winter Olympics gold medal favorite in monobob. (Photo by Patrick Goosen/BSR Agency/Getty Images)

Odds are available at BetMGM for both the two and four-man bobsled competitions. Just like the monobob, the team with the fastest four-run cumulative time will win the gold medal.

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Both competitions are Francesco Friedrichs teams to lose. The German drivers teams are at a wild -650 each to win the two-man and four-man competitions. No other competitor has odds better than +1000 in either event. If youre betting the upset, you can make some cash.

Friedrich and Thorsten Margis tied with Canadas Justin Kripps and Alexander Kopacz for gold in the 2018 two-man competition. Friedrichs team then won the four-man competition as he became the fifth German driver to win both events in the same Olympics.

Kripps team is at +1000 to win the two-man event and +1000 in the four-man event. His team has the same odds in the two-man event as Germanys Johannes Lochner and theyre followed by Great Britains Brad Hall, Latvias Oskars Kibermanis, and the Russian athlete federations Rostislav Gaitukevich at +1500.

Lochners four-man team is at +1200 to win and the No. 4 favorite behind Friedrich, Kripps and Kibermanis (+1000). Hall is at +1500 along with Gaitukevich and Austrias Benjamin Maier.

American Hunter Churchs two-man team is at +25000 to win the gold medal along with Frank Del Ducas team. Churchs four-man odds are much better at +5000 while Del Ducas team is at +15000.

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