IOC Adds a Gambling Monitor to Watch for Cheating in Rio
- Olympics betting legal in Nevada for first time since 2001
- About $1 billion to be wagered worldwide on Olympic Games
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The International Olympic Committee has chosen a London-based firm to watch for suspicious gambling on the Games, which might point to cheating in the competition.
Genius Sports’s Sports Integrity Monitor service will use data from regulated and unregulated betting markets, looking for anything unusual, which might suggest match-fixing. It will report trends in real time to sport governing bodies, leaving them to decide whether anything is amiss.