Winter Olympics betting guide: Sports, odds and angles

The Winter Olympics are about to begin in Beijing, with Opening Ceremonies scheduled for February 4.

Whether you love to watch the Winter Olympics or are looking for some betting angles to enhance your viewing pleasure, we've got you covered with this Olympics betting guide.

The two major sportsbooks, DraftKings and FanDuel, both offer a variety of sports and options to wager on. We'll consolidate a few of them here as you begin planning your favorite bets for the next two weeks.

Winter Olympic Sports/Events to Bet On

FanDuel appears to have a larger offering of sports results to bet on. Some competitions are team based, while others are on an individual level.

You can bet on a winner in the following Winter Olympic competitions:

• Men's/Women's Snowboarding
• Men's/Women's Ski Jumping
• Men's/Women's Alpine Skiing
• Men's/Women's Freestyle Skiing
• Men's/Women's Luge
• Men's/Women's Hockey
• Men's/Women's Curling
• Mixed Curling
• Men's Bobsleigh

Many of the above have multiple competitions within their sport such as Snowboarding with their Slopestyle and Halfpipe events.

DraftKings also offers a few unique betting angles, most notably how many gold medals the United States will win. Their current over/under is set at 8.5 (-110). In 2018, the USA finished with 9 golds and 23 total medals.

Betting Favorites and Top American For Notable Winter Sports

Here we'll quickly walk through the betting favorites for a handful of winter sports event, and find the top American, if you'd like to bet on their odds to win gold.

Men's Snowboarding: Halfpipe

Favorite: Ayumu Hirano (JPN), +250

Top American: Shaun White, +550

Shaun White, one of the most decorated American Olympians of all-time, is making his final go at Men's Halfpipe.

White won gold in 2018 and Hirano won silver.

Men's Snowboarding: Slopestyle

Favorite: Mark McMorris (CAN), +320

Top American: Redmond Gerard, +500

Red Gerard won gold in 2018 and McMorris won bronze.

Women's Snowboarding: Halfpipe

Favorite: Chloe Kim (USA), -230

Kim is a heavy favorite to win another gold in Women's Halfpipe.

Women's Alpine Skiing: Giant Slalom

Favorite: Sara Hector (SWE), +200

Top American: Mikaela Shiffrin, +240

Shiffrin won gold in this event in 2018 and will be looking to take it again. Hector is the favorite, but did not medal in 2018.

Men's Skiing: Downhill

Favorite: Aleksander Aamodt Kilde (NOR) & Beat Feuz (SUI), +300

Top American: Ryan Cochran-Siegle, +3100

Kilde won gold in 2018 while Feuz took home bronze. Betting odds do not suggest the Americans have much of a chance in this downhill competition, with Cochran-Siegle the owner of the best odds.

Men's Luge: Singles

Favorite: Johannes Ludwig (GER), +190

Top American: Chris Mazdzer & Tucker West, +10000

Johannes Ludwig is the favorite after winning bronze in 2018. The gold medal winner from last Olympics, David Gleirscher, is currently +3400 to repeat.

Chris Mazdzer was a surprise silver medalist in 2018 and will be looking to recapture the magic this year.

Women's Luge: Singles

Favorite: Julia Taubitz (GER), +210

Top American: Emily Sweeney, +3500

Taubitz is the favorite, though she did not medal in 2018.

Men's Hockey

In 2018, Russia won gold, Germany won silver and Canada took home bronze. Here are the three betting favorites for 2022:

1. Russia OC, +150
2. Canada, +340
3. Finland, +380

NHL players will not be playing in the Olympics. The Americans are +1200 to win gold.

Women's Hockey

The US women took home gold in 2018 and are viewed as one of the favorites this winter. The top three betting favorites for women's hockey:

1. Canada, -125
2. USA, -105
3. Finland, +1500

The United States beat Canada in the gold medal game in 2018, and Finland won bronze.

Men's Curling

The United States won gold in Men's Curling in 2018, but are not the favorites to win this year. The top three for 2022:

1. Great Britain, +150
2. Canada, +200
3. Sweden, +300

The US is +1100 to win gold. Sweden won silver in 2018, and it was Switzerland who won the bronze medal match.

Women's Curling

Of the three countries to medal in Women's Curling in 2018, only one is inside the top three to win gold this year:

1. Canada, +250
2. Sweden, +270
3. Great Britain, +300

Sweden won gold last year, beating South Korea (+1600) in the final match. Japan (+1200) won bronze. The United States women are +1400 to win curling gold.

The Olympics begin February 4 and run through February 20. Futures bets will become unavailable once the competitions begin, so be sure to place a bet on your favorites before this weekend kicks off the 2022 Winter Olympics.