YOUR LAST-MINUTE GUIDE TO WAGERING ON THE 2018 WINTER OLYMPICS BETTING ODDS. Men’s Short-Track Speed Skating

MenSpeed Skating

Where: Gangneung Ice Arena
When: February 10-22
Favorites: Person – Dee Heon Hwang, South Korea (+350 in 1,000m, +175 in 1,500m); Sjinkie Knegt, Netherlands (+500 in 1,000m, +450 at 1,500m); Hyo Jun Lim, South Korea (+800 in 1,000m, +350 at 1,500m); Relay (5,000m) – South Korea (+175), Canada (+200), United States (+500)
The fastest male skaters from the world converge on Gangneung Ice Arena next week as part of this always-entertaining short-track speed skating competition. The server side is expected to be more well-represented on the podium, with a set of gold-medal contenders in the individual events and overwhelming odds to get a Top-2 result in the 5,000-metre relay race.
Hwang and Lim are their country’s best shot men’s speed skating gold and they both have large shoes to fill, as South Korea has won five of their previous seven Olympic titles at the 1,000-metre event and 2 of four gold medals in the 1,500-metre contest. Knegt gave the Netherlands its only 1,000-metre medal in Olympic history with a third-place revealing in Sochi four decades ago.
It must come as no surprise that the South Korean relay team would be the gold-medal favorite. It hasn’t struck gold since the 2006 Games in Turin and didn’t even get to the podium in Russia. The Canadian group is looking to come back to the podium after settling for a win in the B final four years ago. The U.S. is coming off a second-place lead to Sochi but is a longshot here.