Niyonsaba of Burundi in the womens 800. Niyonsaba timed 1:57.71 as Olym

Nearly 1,000 people have bet on the Cleveland Browns to win the Super Bowl this offseason at MGM sportsbooks in Las Vegas.That seems risky.Caesars Palace has accepted close to 750 bets on the Browns, and the ticket count on Cleveland at sportsbook operator CG Technology is approaching 500 and includes a $1,000 bet at 175-1 and a $500 bet at 200-1.City of champions, right? MGM assistant manager Jeff Stoneback said with a laugh. Weve had the Cavs; the Indians are good. Why not the Browns?For the record, the Cleveland Cavaliers began the season as the second favorites to win the NBA title, and the Cleveland Indians started at 20-1 to win the World Series. The Browns, on the other hand, opened at 200-1 to win the Super Bowl. No other team was worse than 60-1, when the Westgate SuperBook first posted Super Bowl odds in January.Since the Cleveland franchise was reborn in 1999, the Browns have had two winning seasons. Yet, heading into this season, the Browns have attracted more bets to win the Super Bowl than 11 other teams at CG Technology, including the Atlanta Falcons, Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints and Philadelphia Eagles. They have nearly the same amount of bets as the Washington Redskins, a playoff team from last season.The New England Patriots are the consensus favorites to win the Super Bowl and have attracted almost four times as many bets as the Browns at CG Technology, but the Browns have nearly twice as many bets as the Tennessee Titans, the team with the fewest bets to win it all.Overall, the vast majority of bets on the Browns to win the Super Bowl are tiny. Some were even done as a joke, such as Chris Hovans $5 ticket placed at Ballys during an annual March Madness trip to Las Vegas with friends.It was made strictly as a joke, Hovan, a 35-year-old maintenance worker in Brooklyn, Ohio, told ESPN. I just wanted to place the ticket on the wall of my bar in the basement. Ive been a season-ticket holder for 14 years, and I know that the Browns are going to be horrible again this year.Clevelands season-win total, at 4.5, is the lowest of any team in the NFL. CG Technology initially took enough money on the under to cut the total down to 4.We then took an over bet, the biggest bet weve taken [on Clevelands win total], $3,200 on over 4, CG Technology vice president of race and sports Jason Simbal said. That was from a pretty smart guy.Simbal said his book had taken 144 over bets on the Browns win total and 99 on the under.The Browns winning the Super Bowl is the worst-case scenario entering the season at Station Casinos sportsbook.Theyre our biggest loser, said Art Manteris, vice president of race and sports for Station, but I can promise you Im not sweating them. NFL Jerseys For Sale . Aside from the trilogy main event title fight, there are a number of intriguing matchups in the heavyweight, welterweight and lightweight divisions. 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LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Olympic 100-meter champion Elaine Thompson took center stage in the absence of her Jamaican teammate Usain Bolt in the first Diamond League meet after the Rio de Janeiro Games on Thursday.Thompson timed 10.78 seconds with a slight tailwind at Athletissima -- just .07 outside her time in the 100 final in Rio and .08 behind her world-leading time this season.It was Thompsons second time down the track after most runners initially ignored a false start gun.To be able to produce (10.78) on a second attempt, its a great time, said Thompson, a double gold medalist in 100 and 200 who almost matched Bolts title triple, but took home silver in the 4x100 relay.With Bolt celebrating his 30th birthday in London, Churandy Martina of the Netherlands won the 200 in 19.81, just .03 slower than Bolt ran in the Olympic final and a national recordIn the 100, Bolts gold-medal winning relay teammate Asafa Powell clocked 9.96 to win on a track where he ran his personal record of 9.72 soon after the Beijing Olympics.One contender to help the sports void when Bolt retires is Jamaican 110 hurdler Omar McLeod. However, the Olympic champion was edged by .01 on Thursday by the rival he beat for gold, Orlando Ortega. The Spaniards winning run was 13.11.American hurdlers dominated the womens races, and Kendra Harrison again showed what she could have achieved in Rio had she earned selection at national trials.Harrison, who set a world record of 12.20 in London last month, won here in 12.42 -- faster by .06 than the Olympic gold-winning time of teammate Brianna Rollins, who did not run Thursday.Olympic champion Dalilah Muhammad timed 53.78 in a clear 400 hurdles win.Two American bronze medalists in Rio won theirr events: LaShawn Merritt clocked 44.dddddddddddd0 in the 400, and Sam Hendricks set a pole vault meet record by clearing the bar at 5.92. Hendricks used the ideal conditions on a warm, still evening in Lausanne to go seven centimeters above his Olympic height.Two Olympic silver medalists dueled in the womens 3,000: Genzebe Dibaba, the 1,500 runner-up from Ethiopia, won in 8:31.84 after kicking hard at the bell to leave Olympic 5,000 runner-up Hellen Obiri of Kenya trailing in second.Rio silver medalists who also won in Lausanne were Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar, clearing 2.35 at the third attempt in the high jump, and Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi in the womens 800. Niyonsaba timed 1:57.71 as Olympic champion Caster Semenya of South Africa skipped the meet. Semenya plans to run at Zurich next Thursday.In the shot put, 2012 Olympic champion Valerie Adams of New Zealand reversed Rio placings with gold medalist Michelle Carter of the U.S., extending her lead with a final effort at 19.94 meters.Olympic triple jump champion Caterine Ibarguen won with a leap of 14.76, though long jump gold medalist Tianna Bartoletta of the U.S. placed only fifth.Amid Russias doping scandal, its only eligible entry in Olympic track and field was its only competitor in Lausanne: with Darya Klishina finishing third in the long jump won by Olympic bronze medalist Ivana Spanovic of Serbia at 6.83.Mentally this has been a very tough season, Klishina said. I hope the situation with Russia is sorted soon and we athletes just have to focus on performing.The Diamond League series continues in Paris on Saturday. ' ' '