Recent Winter Sports Stories

• Winter Sports
  A guide to winter sports betting at Pinnacle Sports22 Dec 2012

  Pinnacle Sports are coming to the aid of National Hockey League betting fans with a host of winter sports markets to make up for the NHL lockout. While not as popular as ice hockey, winter sports can provide excitement and a profit by placing bets on events, tours and even single athletes in a numb...

• Biathlon Bettin..
  World Biathlon Championships Preview29 Feb 2012

  The world’s best have gathered in Rupholding, Germany for the World Biathlon Championships. The championships have a longer history than what many people think and date as far back as 1958. Over the years then events have been added and women were allowed to participate for the first time in 1984. ...

• Alpine Skiing B..
  Paddy Power offers The Snow Leopard - Ghana's first ever pro skiier an Olympic free bet11 Feb 2010

  Ghana's one and only professional skier, who honed his skills on an artificial slope in the UK, has qualified to compete the 2010 Winter Olympics Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong was born in the Scottish city of Glasgow but he grew up in Ghana's snowless capital, Accra.   But through ...

• Alpine Skiing B..
  Winter Olympic Curling Odds6 Feb 2010

  Olympic curling will be contested by 10 teams and Team Canada are the heavy favorite.Team Canada have the field crushed in the futures market to win gold in Olympic Curling.  Even Great Britain, the team considered second best in the world, are significant underdogs against the Canadian squad....

• Cross Country S..
  Cross Country Skiing Olympic Betting - Petter Northug tipped6 Feb 2010

  Depending on the site you use, Northug is considered a slight underdog to Lukas Bauer.Olympic betting odds for the Men's 15km Cross Country Skiing event are available with some select sites and there is not a clear cut favorite in this event as even the shortest odds can cash in for a pretty profit...

• Cross Country S..
  Winter Olympic Hockey Betting News - Team Canada drifts6 Feb 2010

  Team Canada have drifted a little bit as Team Russia has shortened.With February here, the Vancouver Olympics are just around the corner and one of the most anticipated events is Olympic Ice Hockey.Only two teams are being given a reasonable chance of winning and those teams are Team Canada and Tea...

• Alpine Skiing B..
  Finlay Mickel retires from downhill skiing12 May 2009

  Downhill skier Finlay Mickel has announced his retirement at the age of 31 due to potential injury worries. The Scottish skier has been in the British alpine ski team since 1996 and has competed in an impressive seven World Cup skiing campaigns. Mickel competed at the Turin Winter Olym...

• Alpine Skiing B..
  Tips for Val Gardena and St Moritz18 Dec 2008

  Tips for Val Gardena December 19th – 20thThe favourite to win outright at the Val Gardena downhill event, is American Olympic silver medallist Bode Miller, this athlete seems to always appear at favourite in whatever he does and is priced favourably at 7/2 (bet365). Another Olympic silver medallist...

• Biathlon Bettin..
  Tips for the World Cup Biathlon Hichfilzen18 Dec 2008

  The Women’s Biathlon event takes place in Hichfilzen, a small village in Austria. An event with 7 competitors on similar odds looks to make this Biathlon a great spectacle. Magdalena Neuner earns her top odds to win outright of 5/2 (Bet365) from an impressive record in 2007 culminating in being nam...

• Cross Country S..
  Tips for the Tour de ski – December 20th -21st18 Dec 2008

  Veteran Virpi Kuitunen will be a joy to watch, having competed in cross country skiing since 1995, the 32 year old Fin has had an exciting career. Kuitunen won 6 medals in the FIS world cups, served a 2 year ban for using banned blood plasma expanders, and as a result of her success in the cross co...

• Ski Jumping Bet..
  Tips for Engelberg Ski jumping December 20th – 21st18 Dec 2008

  The first day of ski jumping in Engelberg on the 20th of December, sees Swiss sensation Simon Ammann as clear favourite, the 23 year old skier already has 2 Olympic gold medals to his name, and it’s hard to see anybody taking this event from him at odds of 7/4 (bet365). If anybody is going to ste...

• Ski Jumping Bet..
  Biathlon Betting - Who’ll Strike Gold at World Championships in Sweden? (Feb 9-17)8 Feb 2008

  Winter Sports betting fans can enjoy ten days of top quality Biathlon as the 42nd World Championships takes place from February 9th until the 17th, in Östersund, Sweden. A total of 11 gold medals are up for grabs - 5 events each for the Men and the Women and one Mixed Relay - and as always Pinnacle...

• Ski Jumping Bet..
  2008 Biathlon World Championship31 Jan 2008

  Winter sports betting fans will be looking forward to ten days of top quality Biathlon at the 42nd World Championship in the heart of Sweden. Eleven gold medals are up for grabs from February 8-17 in Ostersund, with five events for the men and the women, as well as a mixed relay. Germany will be ho...

• Ski Jumping Bet..
  World Cup Biathlon (Oberhof) betting4 Jan 2008

  Oberhof, the venue of the 2004 World Championships, hosts team relays events on Thursday and Friday, while the weekend action focuses on individual races. On Saturday the women race in the 7.5km sprint, then over 12.5km the following day, with Germany’s Martina Glagow defending her lead at the top...

• Ski Jumping Bet..
  Can Thomas Morgenstern maintain his lead after the Four Hills Tournaments?21 Dec 2007

  Last weekend’s Winter Sports action was dominated by the record-breaking form of Austrian ski-jumper, Thomas Morgenstern. “Morgi” made history by winning five consecutive World Jump events, so the question punters must now ask themselves is whether the 21 year old super star can make it six at the ...