5-4
Roger Federer to win the US Open (starts 25 August). Odds-against for a fifth straight US Open win is too good to resist: Federer wasn't exactly out of touch at Wimbledon and will be on a mission. Rival Rafael Nadal has never gone further than the quarters at Flushing Meadows.

9-1
Portsmouth to win the Premier League 'without the Big Four' (starts 16 August). The combination of Jermain Defoe and Peter Crouch is an interesting one ahead of Lassana Diarra and Niko Kranjcar and a solid back line. An each-way bet yields a decent profit even if Pompey are seventh.

15-8
Usain Bolt to win the Olympic men's 100metres (heats begin 15 August). The talk that the new world-record holder may stick to 200m is, surely, nonsense. Bolt won the Jamaican trials in an easing-up 9.85 and is favoured to beat Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay.