Alpine skiing men's downhill predictions and Winter Olympics betting tips

Free Alpine skiing tips, best bets and analysis for the Winter Olympics men's downhill at Beijing 2022.

Where to watch

Live Beijing 2022 coverage on BBC & Eurosport

When to bet

Starts 3am Sunday

Best bets

Aleksander Aamodt Kilde to win men's downhill
1pt 12-5 Paddy Power

Vincent Kriechmayr men's downhill podium
1pt 3-1 bet365

Preview

Norway scored a 1-2 finish in the last Olympic men's downhill with Axel Lund Svindal and Kjetil Jansrud, and at Beijing 2022 hopes are high that Aleksander Aamodt Kilde can keep the Vikings' run going.

Kilde raced without much distinction at the last two Winter Olympics, but his breakthrough came in 2020, when he won the overall World Cup title. An injury in January 2021 scuppered his defence but he has already won six World Cup races this season including three downhills.

The Yanqing slope has yet to host an international race so there is no course form, but Kilde has looked good in the training runs (there is one more in the early hours of Saturday).

If Kilde slips up then the man to profit may be Austrian Vincent Kriechmayr. The 2021 World Cup super-G champion has scored his two most recent victories in the faster downhill discilpine, most recently on the legendary Lauberhorn run at Wengen, Switzerland.

Kriechmayr proved he has the nerve for one-off races by claiming gold in both downhill and super-G at the 2021 World Championships and after finishing seventh in the Pyeongchang downhill, he looks a decent bet to pick up a medal this time round.

Great Britain's curling mixed doubles pair Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat start the day second in the table with matches against Czech Republic (6.10am GB & Ireland time) and unbeaten Italy (12.10pm) on their agenda.

The top four after the ten-pair round robin advance to the semi-finals.

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