Racing is bent but tennis is benter ?

[Artemis]

Betting on sporting events involving individuals playing each other has a chequered history. Snooker, boxing, athletics and darts have all been implicated in betting coups over the years. It is fairly obvious that it is easy to ‘rig’ any event in these sports and I’m sure there are many other sports and psuedo sporting events that can be so manipulated. If you bet on these events, you do so in the knowledge that the vast majority are straight, but you have to be aware that there is always a chance of sharp practise.

Team games are harder to fix, but many have been.

I suppose any event that involves the exchange of money is susceptible to the use of deception. Was there ever an age of innocence, I wonder?

[Seagull]

It seems that some on betfair yesterday evening were lumping on Lewis Hamilton to win the F1 race today before any official annoucement from the stewards in Hungary was declared.
Many firms last night closed for the night with Alonso odds to win today but a few firms followed betfair and had Hamilton odds on!

[seabird]

mmmmmmmmmmmm!……………..verrrrry interesting and probably illegal.

Colin

[Scribbles]

In answer to the OP’s question, all ‘money’ sports are bent. How bent depends firmly on how easy it is to inconspiculously do it, and how much money can be made. That’s just the way it is when reddies are involved. I firmly believe that money takes precidence over fame in the sporting world. The fame is nice, but the money is always better.
Except, of course, when you already have the money. Then the fame is good enough.

[Nor1]

How bent not only depends on how easy it is to inconspicuously do it, but how rigorously the perpetrators are pursued and then dealt with.

[Author]

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