The controversial 2016 Rio Summer Olympics are officially in the books, but the activities books in Nevada had little interest in their outcome. For the first time since the Sydney Games in 2000, sports betting was permitted in the Silver State with this year’s 16 days of competition, but evidently, bettors were less than excited about their options.

Action was slower than slow, according to those who simply take wagers in Las vegas, nevada’ biggest casinos. Perhaps some of the lesser known events simply did not jibe with the typical sports that are american. From badminton and canoe slalom, to rhythmic gymnastics and swimming that is synchronized Las Vegas sports books lined up the odds, but few took them.

‘We probably have actually taken about as much in Olympic wagers as we might on a baseball that is big, regular season,’ Mirage oddsmaker Jay Rood said this month.

The disappointing, yet not completely unforeseen Olympics for Nevada casinos might cause less enthusiasm for the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea since well. It ended up being no easy feat for oddsmakers to organize lines on a host of athletic disciplines most had been utterly not really acquainted with.

Big Bets, Little Pay

Also the casual sports fan knows the name Michael Phelps, therefore the many decorated Olympian ever lived up to his hype. Phelps won five associated with six events he competed in and departed his final Olympics with a total of 23 silver medals.

And for bettors in the Silver State, the lines on Phelps were nearly off the chart.

At Bovada, Phelps was a -300 favorite into the butterfly that is 100m and his 4x200m freestyle relay group required a $700 bet to win $100.

As crazy as that noises, it was a good bet, as Ledecky cruised to a world-record time and beat the silver medalist by nearly 12 moments.

Team USA basketball people also wowed bookies in Nevada. The guys had been -2500 favorites and the women were listed at -1400. Both won their tournaments.

Overall, Team USA won the greatest medal count of all of the participants with 121 total gold, silver, and bronze. Asia put second with 70, and Great Britain third at 67.

Host country Brazil won 19 total medals, and garnered plenty of criticism as well. Inadequate housing, contaminated water, criminal activity, and last but not least, Zika, all plagued the lead-up to the competition.

Lochte and Loaded

The games were certainly not without scandal before US swimmer Ryan Lochte took center phase, with incidents of rape and robbery being reported in the first days that are few. But Lochte’s actions overshadowed much of the final few days of the Games, in what numerous athletes might have considered a cloud over their moment in the sun’s rays.

In what would later be a fable concocted by the 12-time medal winner, Lochte’s tale about being robbed at gunpoint almost entirely took over the last days of the Olympics.

‘I over-exaggerated that story,’ Lochte told NBC over the week-end. ‘They place on a great games. . . [but] my immature behavior tarnished that a little, and I don’t want that.’

His mea culpas could have come too late, nevertheless. Speedo terminated its sponsorship on Monday, amid Lochte’s late-out-of-the-gate admission that he had way too much to drink that night making decisions that are bad from it. It’s unclear whether his other backers, including Gillette, Gatorade, and AT&T, does the same.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will probably never be rushing right back up to a developing nation anytime soon again, but however, left the united states on a note that is positive.

‘We found its way to Brazil as guests. We depart as your friends,’ IOC President Thomas Back said during the closing ceremony today.