A pair of high-profile women’s swimming events are among the highlights on the 2024 Paris Olympics docket for Saturday, July 27. The women’s 400-meter freestyle is set for 2:55 p.m. ET, with six swimmers vying for the gold medal. Ariarne Titmus of Australia is the favorite at -280 (risk $280 to win $100) in the latest 2024 Paris Olympics odds. Her competitors include Summer McIntosh of Canada (+370), Katie Ledecky of the United States (+600), Isabel Gose of Germany (+6500), Paige Madden of the United States (+6500) and Li Bingjie of China (+6500).
The women’s 400-meter freestyle relay is set to start at 3:37 p.m. ET. The Australian women are the clear favorites at -550 (risk $550 to win $100), followed by the United States (+650), China (+1200), Canada (+3100), Great Britain (+3700) and Netherlands (+6500). Before locking in any 2024 Summer Olympics picks on those events or others, you need to see what SportsLine Olympic insider Mike Tierney has to say.
A national sportswriter whose work appears in The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, Tierney has covered nine Olympic Games in person. At Rio in 2016, Tierney profited big-time. He told readers to bet over on Team USA’s gold medal count (41.5) and over…