As the main venue of the Olympic Games, the Athens Olympic Stadium itself has supporting commercial facilities, and there are commercial streets and shopping malls planned in its vicinity, most of which are not newly built, but renovated from old buildings. While the pace of construction of the Athens Olympic stadium has been criticized, the construction of the commercial district has been rapid, even earlier than the stadium was completed.

At the corner of a commercial street, where the flow of people was dense, Zhang Guan stood in front of a building, looked up at the big sign of "OPAP" on the signboard, he took out the tourist map and checked it, and found that he was not looking for the wrong place, so he walked in.

OPAP is the abbreviation of Greek Football Spinach Company, which is the largest spinach company in Greece and is also a Greek state-owned company that has almost monopolized the entire Greek spinach market.

The Olympics are undoubtedly a huge gold mine for spinach companies, and for speculators, Olympic spinach is also a feast not to be missed. And Zhang Guan remembers a lot of Olympic results in his mind, buying a few unpopular people through spinach and speculating is a good way to make a fortune quickly.

Therefore, Zhang Guan tried his best to raise funds for euros before going abroad, even at the expense of loans, and at the same time Zhang Guan signed up for the rehearsal of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, hoping to arrive in Athens as soon as possible to participate in this spinach event.

Zhang Guan first went to the bank to get a debit card, although the work efficiency of the Greeks is not high, but after all, it is the Olympic period, it is very easy for foreigners to apply for a debit card in Greece, and it can be done in minutes by taking out a passport.

Then Zhang Guan went to the largest betting station near the Olympic Complex.

If it is a few years later, the European online spinach industry is becoming more and more mature, Zhang Guan can handle online banking business and then conduct online spinach through the website, but at this time, Internet spinach has no legal status in many European countries, and some countries even have many restrictions. For example, Finland, the largest online spinach country in Europe, has laws that only permanent residents of Finland can participate in online spinach; The United Kingdom, the largest spinach country in Europe, has not yet implemented the "2005 Spinach Act" that stipulates the legalization of online spinach, and other countries such as Germany, Italy, and Spain have no laws and regulations on online spinach.

So spinach in this era is mainly played live through betting shops.

OPAP's betting shops are located all over Greece, and the vast majority of small and medium-sized betting shops only sell OPAP's own sports lottery tickets, while some large betting shops, in addition to selling OPAP's own sports lottery, also represent the sports lottery of major spinach companies in Europe. While European countries are still struggling to protect their spinach industries, this is not often the case in Europe.

The spinach industry is an industry where it is easier to make money than to grab it. From the national level, it is natural to hope that the local people will only buy their own lottery tickets; From the perspective of the big spinach company, it is natural to hope that all countries can open up their markets.

The EU has always been committed to the economic and financial integration of the eurozone, so it also hopes that EU countries can open up to each other, including some monopoly industries dominated by state-owned capital. In order to smoothly enter the eurozone, Greece had to promise to open up some areas of its country to allow foreign investment, including the conditional opening of Greece's spinach industry.

The Olympic Games is a big cake for the entire spinach industry, and Greece also knows that it is impossible for itself to swallow this big cake, and in order to build Olympic venues, Greece has also borrowed a lot of money from the European Union, and the big spinach group has put pressure on Greece through the European Union, so the Greek government allows foreign spinach companies to enter Greece through the agent sales model, but it has limited the only agent to be the Greek state-owned company OPAP.

For foreign spinach companies entering Greece, Greece has strict approval and supervision, and for each spinach transaction, OPAP will take a certain fee as an agency fee, and Greece also stipulates that the purchase of foreign spinach company products through OPAP must register an account with OPAP, and the direct purchase of OPAP spinach products does not need to be registered.

Despite the restrictions, there are still many people who are willing to go the extra mile to buy products from foreign spinach companies, and many of them are tourists, especially those from Europe, who are more inclined to buy products from their own countries.

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Zhang Guan walked into the hall of the betting station, only to see that the wall was hung with LCD TVs, real-time broadcast of the odds of various events of the Olympic Games, and there were dozens of self-service odds inquiry machines, of which a part of the self-service inquiry machines can query the odds of foreign spinach companies.

Zhang Guan took the bank card and passport he had just opened, registered with OPAP, and then came to a self-service inquiry machine, where he first checked the odds of the men's 100-meter sprint.

Basically, all the players who entered the Olympics with Olympic A standard results are listed, and as for the B standard players, it is not worth the spinach company to put them on at all, and even if they do, no one will buy them.

The odds for the championship are ranked from low to high, the top three are all Americans, the first place is the defending champion and the sprinter who has broken the world record, Maurice Green is followed by Sean Crawford and Justin Gatlin, Jamaican flyer Asafa Powell is only in fourth place, the fifth is Portuguese Francis Obikwiru, followed by the Caribbean island nation of St. Kitt and Nevis athletes Kim Chris and British veteran Jason Gardner, looking down, Zhang Guan's name apparently does not appear on the first page.

The athletes on the front page only listed the odds to win the championship, and it was clear that they were expected to make it to the final, and the athletes who followed gradually listed the odds to reach the final and the odds to the semi-finals.

"Where am I?" Zhang Guan kept pressing the page turning button, and finally found his name.

"There was only one company that offered me odds to reach the semi-finals, and the odds were very low, only 1.2 to 1, obviously the spinach company thought I would definitely make it to the semi-finals. I entered the final odds, Ladbrokes is 1 to 2, Ribo is 1 to 2.5, William Hill is 1 to 2.1, Sports Bo is also 1 to 2.5, hey, this Spanish company gave me the highest, is 1 to 3.3. ”

According to these data, Zhang Guan knows that the major spinach companies in Europe are also more optimistic that they can enter the finals.

"Look at my odds to win...... Uh, Ladbrokes is 80 to 1, Ribo is 100 to 1, William Hill is 80 to 1, Sports is 1 to 100, this Spanish spinach company is 120 to 1, and this Italian company is 1 to 150! The odds offered to me by OPAP to win the championship turned out to be 180 to 1, and the Greeks are going to die! I'm going to get rich! ”

Zhang Guan was secretly happy in his heart, but if he looked at it again, from the fourth page onwards, the odds of all athletes winning the championship were the same as himself, ranging from 80 to 1 to 150.

"It seems that this is the highest odds offered to me by various spinach companies." Zhang Guan thought to himself.

Large spinach companies have an upper limit when setting odds, among which the upper limit of the odds given by the British spinach company is basically 1 to 100, because the UK is the most developed country in the spinach industry in Europe, so the spinach companies in Western and Central Europe basically refer to the British standard.

The biggest business of spinach company is football lottery, Spain in southern Europe has La Liga, Italy Serie A, these two top leagues and the Premier League are also competitive, Spain and Italy will naturally not be on par with the British in the odds, especially many spinach companies in Italy have the shadow of the mafia behind them, and it is not without artificial manipulation of the game, and it is naturally more bold in the odds, and the odds of 1 to 150 or more can be opened. Like the Greek OPAP company, which offers 1 to 200 odds in the local market, there are also occasional odds.

As for Northern and Eastern Europe, there are small spinach companies, which can only be mixed in their own countries, and there is basically no market and influence overseas.

For example, in the Brazil World Cup, the odds offered to North Korea are 1 to 100, while some small companies can offer 700 to 1.

Zhang Guan began to check the odds of other matches again. The single events are similar, the odds offered by the favourites are very low, and the odds of the players who have no hope of winning the championship are about 100 to 1.

In the team event, the biggest favorite to win the basketball championship is, of course, the United States team, the second odds are the Greek men's basketball team, the Spanish men's basketball team ranks third, followed by the Argentine men's basketball team and the Italian men's basketball team, and then Germany, Russia and Serbia and Montenegro, as for the Chinese men's basketball team, Ladbrokes gave the odds of winning the championship is 1:80. Of course, the Chinese team is not the worst, and the odds of winning the championship are 1:100 for Japan and Nigeria.

"The men's national basketball team has performed very well in this Olympic Games, although there is no hope of winning the championship, but it has also reached the quarterfinals. It's just that why is the Greek men's basketball team ranked second, the Greek men's basketball team has been losing for the past two years, is it because of the host, too many people have bought it, and the odds have been lowered? Zhang Guan thought to himself.

The odds given by Spinach are not static, they will change all the time depending on the performance of the game, and if the amount of money bought is too much, the odds will also decrease. Theoretically, even if it is 1 to 100, as long as you buy enough, it may be reduced to 1.1 to 1.

"I remember that the basketball champion of this Olympic Games is Argentina, but Argentina has performed really well in the past two years, it is not an underdog, the odds are also very low, and I didn't make any money when I bought it. Let's take a look at football! ”

Zhang Guan began to check the odds of the football event.

European football has the strongest atmosphere, and the top European leagues have tens of billions of euros in spinach sales every year, so the Olympic football project is not only the most concerned, but also the most involved spinach.

However, there is an age limit for Olympic football players, who cannot be more than 23 years old, which makes many famous and big-name football players miss the Olympics, and it also increases the uncertainty of the Olympic football program. If you are not a veteran fan, I am afraid you will not know much about athletes under the age of 23, so the odds given by Spinach have become the most direct way for fans to understand the strength of each team.

In terms of odds, Portugal, Italy, Argentina and Paraguay are the favorites to win the championship, but Zhang Guan did not pay attention to the odds of these strong teams, but directly found an Asian team - Iraq.

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