Men’s and women’s beach volleyball, men’s track and field, women’s basketball and men’s volleyball come to the forefront on Wednesday at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The women’s beach volleyball match between Ana Patricia Silva Ramos and Duda Lisboa of Brazil and Latvia’s Tina Graudina and Anastasija Samoilova is one of intriguing matchups. The Brazilian duo are -500 favorites in the latest Paris Olympics odds and have yet to drop a set and advanced to the quarterfinals with a 21-15, 21-16 win over Japan’s Akiko Hasegawa and Miki Ishii. The Latvians, meanwhile, advanced with a hard-fought 21-13, 17-21, 18-16 win over Germany’s Svenja Muller and Cinja Tillmann.
In men’s beach volleyball, Americans Andrew Benesh and Miles Partain will look to advance to the semifinals when they battle Qatar’s Cherif Younousse Samba and Ahmed Tijan Janko. There are also big events in track, men’s basketball and more, so what are the Olympic best bets for Tuesday? 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…