Tokyo Olympics 2020 odds, picks, predictions for July 31: Proven expert reveals best bets for track, swimming

Workforce USA Swimming will maintain the highlight for another evening Saturday on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, simply hours earlier than a pair of Individuals chase glory in observe’s most prestigious occasion. Workforce USA swimmer Caeleb Dressel will likely be going for his fourth gold medal of those Summer season Video games when he goes off because the -450 favourite (threat $450 to win $100) at William Hill Sportsbook for Saturday’s 50-meter freestyle ultimate (9:30 p.m. ET). The Workforce USA males will shut out the Olympics 2020 swimming program by going for its sixteenth gold medal in as many tries within the males’s 4×100 medley relay (10:36 p.m. ET), and they’re favored to do exactly that.

Individuals Trayvon Bromell and Ronnie Baker are the favorites to win Olympics 2020 gold Sunday morning within the males’s 100 meters (8:50 a.m. ET). The ultimate spherical of males’s golf (6:30 p.m. ET) and the boys’s tennis gold-medal match (3:15 a.m. ET) are among the many different notable occasions beginning late on Saturday or early Sunday. In the meantime, ladies’s gymnastics particular person medal occasions begin Sunday with the vault (4:45 a.m. ET) and uneven bars (6:27 a.m. ET). Earlier than locking in any 2020 Tokyo Olympics picks or predictions for these occasions or others, you need to see what SportsLine Olympics expert Mike Tierney is saying.

A nationwide sportswriter whose work seems in The New York Occasions and Los Angeles Occasions, Tierney has coated 9 Olympic Video games in particular person. Up to now two Olympic Video games, his recommendation helped those that adopted him money in massive, and he already has nailed an enormous winner at Tokyo 2020.

Earlier than Sunday’s males’s triathlon, Tierney tabbed Norway’s Kristian Blummenfelt as his option to win gold, and that wager paid off massive at +600.   

On the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in 2018, he nailed Suzanne Schulting (+2500) of the Netherlands and Norway’s Havard Lorentzen (+800) to triumph in velocity skating and the USA’s Mikaela Shiffrin (+185) to win the enormous slalom. Tierney additionally took the below (10.5) on the Individuals’ gold-medal depend, and that additionally cashed because the USA got here in with 9.

And on the Rio 2016 Summer season Video games, Tierney instructed readers to wager over on Workforce USA’s gold medal depend (41.5) and over on Workforce USA’s total medal depend (102.5). The consequence? 46 golds, 121 medals and two straightforward cashes. Anybody who adopted Tierney’s recommendation cashed in enormous.

Now, Tierney has been finding out the 2020 Tokyo Olympics occasion schedule and digging down into the person sports activities. He has launched three assured Olympic finest bets for Saturday, and two of them have massive plus-money payouts. He’s sharing those 2020 Olympics picks only at SportsLine.

Prime 2020 Tokyo Olympics predictions

One shocker: Tierney is fading American Michael Norman, who’s the -137 favourite within the males’s 400 meters, which has heats beginning Saturday at 9:45 p.m. ET. The 23-year-old has drawn comparisons to the legendary Michael Johnson, however the former USC star would not have a whole lot of international competitors below his belt. He struggled with an damage at his solely main senior competitors in 2019, when he competed within the World Championships however completed final in his semifinal .

He ran 45.94 in that race after posting 43.45 only a few months earlier than that, which is tied for the fourth-fastest time in historical past. He hit 44.07 in June’s Olympic Trials, so he has the velocity. However he additionally will likely be dealing with stress in his first Olympic Video games. His mom is Japanese, and there are excessive expectations. “Competing in Japan lifts his motivation however heightens the stress in a nation that regards him as a celeb,” Tierney tells SportsLine, and the professional is taking an alternative choice.

The best way to make 2020 Tokyo Olympics picks

Along with calling for a shock within the males’s 400 meters, Tierney has locked in two different finest bets for upcoming Olympic motion. Two of those picks deliver massive plus-money payouts, so head to SportsLine and check out what Tierney has to say.

What are the very best bets for the Tokyo Olympics 2020? And which lengthy shot do you’ll want to be throughout in observe? Visit SportsLine now to get Mike Tierney’s best bets for the Tokyo Summer Olympics, all from the renowned sportswriter who’s covered nine Olympics in person and cashed big in both 2016 and ’18, and discover out.