A number of events highlight Tuesday's 2024 Paris Olympics schedule, including men's and women's beach volleyball, women's track and field, women's soccer and men's basketball. Among the matches of particular interest to SportsLine expert Mike Tierney are men's and women's beach volleyball.
On the women's side, an intriguing quarterfinal match pits Sara Hughes and Kelly Cheng of the United States against Tanja Huberli and Nina Brunner of Switzerland. Hughes and Cheng, the -135 favorites, had to claw their way to a 21-18, 17-21, 15-12 win over Italy's Valentina Gottardi and Marta Menegatti in the Round of 16, while Huberli and Brunner earned a 23-21, 21-16 over Spain's Liliana Fernandez Steiner and Paula Soria Gutierrez.
Before locking in any 2024 Summer Olympics predictions for Tuesday, Aug. 6, you need to see what SportsLine Olympic insider Mike Tierney has to say.
A national sportswriter whose work appears in The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, Tierney has covered nine Olympic Games in person. At Rio in 2016, Tierney profited big-time. He told readers to bet over on Team USA's gold medal count (41.5) and over on Team USA's overall medal count (102.5). The result? 46 golds, 121 medals and two easy cashes. Then, at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Tierney hit two of his three predictions: Germany (+200) to win the most gold medals and the United States winning under 10.5 gold medals (+110).
Now, Tierney has broken down the 2024 Paris Olympics from every possible angle and locked in his best predictions and bets for Tuesday, Aug. 6. We can tell you that Tierney is backing Brazil (+27 points) to cover the point spread of their men's basketball game against the United States.
"After beating the spread versus Serbia in its debut, the U.S. has seemed uninterested in pulling away from foes," Tierney told SportsLine. "Brazil can hang with the Americans. It excels on the offensive boards, a relative U.S. weakness, and tops the field with 45 percent shooting on threes. The Brazilians have won just once, but had respectable defeats to France by 12 and Germany by 13. Here's guessing the U.S. will salt away a victory, then look ahead to the semis rather than pursue a blowout."
Tierney also has identified two beach volleyball, one women's track and field, one women's soccer and one men's basketball selection on Tuesday! You ABSOLUTELY need to see his 2024 Paris Olympics picks before locking in your own.
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