2008 BBC Sports Personality of the Year - Rebecca Adlington Overthrows Hamilton as Bookmakers Favourite

Olympic Gold medalist and British swimming sensation, 19 year old Rebecca Adlington has overthrown Formula One champion, Lewis Hamiton from his pole position.

No, we are not talking about car racing here but about the race for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year crown. Adlington has now become odds on favourite with most UK bookmakers to become the sports personality of the year when voting happens on 14th Dec 2008.

In a surprising twist to the betting on the award, all the UK bookmakers have suddenly started to recieve huge support for Adlington, which led them to cut her odds leading her to become a joint favourite with Hamilton first.

Now, she has overtaken him with more money coming in even at the lower odds while Hamiltion has moved from Odds on favourite till now to second with 2/1 odds at most bookmakers. He is available at the best odds of 9/4 at Totesport.

Chris Hoy has also been recieving a lot of sudden interest and has moved to as low as 3/1 with Paddy Power and is available at 4/1 with Blue Square, 888Sport and Canbet

Rebecca Adlington is now as low as 4/6 with VC Bet and the best odds are available at 10/11 at bet365 and 11/10 at betfair.

There is still a week to go before the final voting starts and we can expect more changes in the odds. Who will win the race between a woman, a cycle and a Formula One Car ? We would get to know on 14th Dec 2008 only.

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