Potential for a Wemby Double-Double and A'ja Wilson Dominance in Olympics

In today’s newsletter…

• Leading Off: Coming to you from Paris

• MLB: Manuel Margot batting .360 in last 9

• Olympics: Wemby, Team USA women in action on the hardwood

• More MLB: Yariel Rodriguez‘s 2.01 July ERA worth watching

• News: Engineer wins Olympic medal

PARIS — Nearly 70 million more Americans live in states where sports betting is legal compared to the last Summer Olympics (Tokyo in 2021). Add that to a more manageable time difference for U.S. fans, and interest in the 2024 Olympics is expected to skyrocket. I’ll be in Paris for the next week taking in the Games, and while most sports fans will learn about most of the athletes for the first time during NBC’s coverage, familiar faces are competing.

Here are some futures from FanDuel on some of the most high-profile athletes at the Paris Olympics:

• Scottie Scheffler +340 to win gold in men’s golf

• Nellie Korda +550 to take home the gold in the women’s golf competition

• The U.S. women’s national soccer team is the betting favorite at +165

• The U.S. men’s basketball team is -560 against the field (+360) to win gold. The U.S. women are even more dominant: they’re -4000 to win their group

• Carlos Alcaraz is -140 to win the men’s tennis competition while Iga Swiatek is -250 to win on the women’s side

• Victor Wembanyama is +550 to score 35+ points in any game and Giannis Antetokounmpo is +180 to score 25+ points in every game.

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