Swimming - Women's 800m Freestyle

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Rebecca Adlington is 4/7 with VCbet to win the 800m freestyle. With her parents flying out to cheer her on i wouldnt be betting against the lass not to bring home another gold medal in this her strongest event

Credentials - Adlington won gold at the short course World Championships earlier this year and is ranked number one in the world.

And there is no doubt that she will go into her specialist event full of confidence after becoming the first British woman to win Olympic gold in 40 years with her surprise win in the 400m freestyle earlier this week.

Adlington snatches swimming gold
Need to know - The 19-year-old's most prized possession is a pair of Christian Louboutin shoes.

Who might stop her? Katie Hoff (US), Kate Ziegler (US), Alessia Filippi (Ita)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olym...9642.stm#fri15

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Semi-final times of the eight who's competing in the final:

1. 8:18.06 Rebecca Adlington (GBR)
2. 8:19.70 Camelia Potec (ROU)
3. 8:21.74 Lotte Freis (DEN)
4. 8:21.95 Alessia Filippi (ITA)
5. 8:22.81 Kylie Palmer (AUS)
6. 8:23.07 Elena Sokolova (RUS)
7. 8:24.37 Xuanxu Li (CHN)
8. 8:25.91 Cassandra Patten (GBR)

Rebecca Adlington now a best-priced 8/13 with BetDirect/Stan James with her nearest challengers Alessia Filippi 4/1 (Sportingbet) and Camelia Potec 9/2 (Bet Direct/Skybet/Sportingbet/Stan James).

Katie Hoff didn't even qualify for the final!

Swimming Women's 800m Freestyle Results - The official website of the BEIJING 2008 Olympic Games