拉斯维加斯体育博彩禁止奥运会相关的赌博

　　当其余的体育赌博领域正忙于2012 年伦敦奥运会，拉斯维加斯却是在这四年一期的体育盛会之前异常低迷。这是怎么回事呢？

　　是的，世界的赌博之都（或者至少在澳门接管该名誉之前它是）不允许其体育博彩与奥运会相关。很显然，拉斯维加斯体育博彩不允许对美国高校体育业余活动下注。国家法律由强制内华达州游戏委员会执行，这一问题可以追溯到上世纪末国会想要通过法案禁止内华达州大学生体育博彩。为了让步，国家官员建议除美国大学体育以外，禁止"其他"的业余体育的形式。而由于奥运会被认为是业余体育比赛，而受制于这项法律，因此否定了拉斯维加斯接触这特定的饼干罐的机会。

　　当然，"业余"一词被相当松散地定义在这种情况下，尤其是当你考虑某些运动员参与比赛（其中主要是篮球、 网球、 和足球）来自专业的背景。但有些人会认为这都是一种错综复杂的语义形式或方式，规矩就是规矩。

　　另一面，拉斯维加斯体育博彩并不是完全受不能触及奥运会的影响，因为历史表明，这样的比赛投注也是件非常棘手的事情。

　　对于初办者来说，违背了其要拥护的运动员运动标准，奥运不完全是美德的典范，曾处理无数的丑闻已经沾染了这么多年的声誉。这是不值得的麻烦，对吧？

　　让我们来面对现实，你会很容易发现在这个领域大量人口都对谁赢得射箭金牌、手球金牌感兴趣。

　　但如果你想到挠到痒处，就要离岸和在线体育博彩为奥运提供线路。但事实就是尤其当你考虑到赛程，奥运是否在NFL季前赛前结束，它是否值得？

　　当你把自己的收入省下为 NFL 赛季的开始作准备，你可能不知道将要发生什么，为什么不打个赌呢？

　　选择对我们来说很容易，我们不会睡过头而错过任何奥运投注。这告诉我们拉斯维加斯也不会在意这些。

　　译文：

　　While the rest of the sports gambling world is gearing for a busy 2012 London Olympics, Las Vegas is unusually subdued leading up to the quadrennial sporting spectacle. What’s the deal, you ask?

　　Well, the gambling capital of the world – or a least until Macau takes over that mantle – isn’t allowing its sports books to put up betting lines on the Olympics. Apparently, Vegas sports books aren’t allowed to make wagers on amateur events with US college sports being the exception. State laws, which is being enforced by the Nevada Gaming Control Board, surrounding this issue can be traced back to the turn of the century when congress wanted to pass a bill to outlaw college sports betting in Nevada. In order to compromise, state officials proposed to ban “other” forms of amateur sports save for the US college sports. And since the Olympics is considered an amateur athletic competition, then it fell under the scope of that law, thus disavowing Vegas an opportunity to put their hands on that particular cookie jar.

　　The word “amateur” is, of course, defined pretty loosely in this case, especially when you consider that some of the athletes participating in the event – basketball, tennis, and soccer chief among them – come from professional backgrounds. But some will argue that all that is a convoluted form of semantics and either way, rules are rules.

　　On the flip side, Vegas sports books aren’t all that affected by not getting to put lines on the Olympics because, as history has shown, wagering on an event like this is pretty tricky.

　　For starters, and contrary to the sporting standards that the event wants to espouse on its athletes, the Olympics isn’t exactly a paragon of virtue, having had to deal with numerous scandals that have tainted its reputation for so many years. Not worth the hassle, right?

　　And let’s face it, you’d be hard-pressed to find a significant population in the area who may have a vested interest in who wins the gold medal in archery or, God forbid, handball.

　　But if you’ve got that itch that needs to be scratched, offshore and online sports books do offer lines for the Olympics. But really, is it all worth it, especially when you take into consideration that in terms of scheduling, the Olympics end just in time for the start of the NFL pre-season?

　　Why make a wager on an event you probably won’t know how its played when you can just save your disposal income to gear up for the NFL season?

　　The choice is easy for us and we won’t lose any sleep over missing out on Olympic betting. Something also tells us that Vegas won’t mind that either.