Our fringe sport betting activities continue this weekend when the 2012 Tour de France begins!
We have kind of a morbid curiosity toward le Tour de France, having not won (or even wagered) since Lance Armstrong's incredible steroid-filled run. Now that everyone in the field has two testes, things have gotten a little tougher to predict.
Heavy favorite Bradley Wiggins went down in a crash in last year's Tour, paving the way for Cadel Evans to win cycling's greatest (only?) prize. What's changed in 2012? Not much, to be honest.
Wiggins' collarbone injury is healed, and we have ourselves a two-bike race. Check out the complete 2012 Tour de France odds below...
2012 Tour de France odds you need to know:
Bradley Wiggins 7/5
Cadel Evans 2/1
2012 Tour de France odds you don't need to know:
Vincenzo Nibali 20/1
Chris Froome 22/1
Denis Menchov 22/1
Jurgen Van Den Broeck 22/1
Ryder Hesjedal 22/1
Frank Schleck 28/1
Robert Gesink 28/1
Samuel Sanchez 33/1
Alejandro Valverde 40/1
Pierre Rolland 50/1
Tony Martin 50/1
Jani Brajkovic 66/1
Levi Leipheimer 66/1
Andreas Kloden 80/1
Chris Horner 100/1
Ivan Basso 100/1
Lieuwe Westra 100/1
Peter Velits 125/1
Michele Scarponi 150/1
Tom Danielson 150/1
Bauke Mollema 200/1
Edvald Boasson Hagen 200/1
Juan Jose Cobo 200/1
Jean-Christophe Peraud 250/1
Reine Taaramae 250/1
Jelle Vanendert 300/1
Luis Leon Sanchez 300/1
Maxime Monfort 300/1
Philippe Gilbert 300/1
Rui Costa 300/1
Sandy Casar 300/1
Steven Kruijswijk 300/1
Christophe Kern 500/1
Kevin De Weert 500/1
Peter Sagan 500/1
We only published the complete odds to this race because 1. some of you idiots still don't know where else to get information like this and 2. we are close family friends with Kevin De Weert and wanted to make sure he got his name published on an obscure gambling blog that is clearly biding time until football season (regular NFL content is a coming in the next few days).
OK, maybe we don't know the De Weert's. But there are the odds if you need them. As for our pick? It's obviously going to be one of the top two, and when in doubt, go with the better odds--and the defending champ. We'll take a flier on 2011 champ Cadel Evans to repeat (we mean 'flier' based on our lack of knowledge only, we are fully aware that he is one of only two legitimate favorites).
We hope you enjoyed the first ever cycling related content here at Stock Lemon Blog, and we hope you come back for some of our more worthwhile content as well, should it ever arrive.
