Miss World Betting 2009

Always controversial, yet at the same time, always a seemingly guilty televisual pleasure like Im a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here or Celebrity Big Brother, the annual Miss World beauty pageant is also a must for the online entertainment betting community; and always means brisk business for the leading online bookies queueing up to offer the latest odds, prices and associated betting markets at the fulcrum of the global phenomenon. Which it seems, despite protestations to the contrary from some sectors of society, is as meaningful and relevant today as it was from day one.

Either way, Miss World Betting 2009 provides a rich and diverse source of entertainment (and therein as a by-product, entertainment betting) for interactive betting fans, continually on the look out for new virtual punting kicks. Miss World betting 2009 also serves as a pleasant distraction from the staple autumnal Betting diet of National Hunt betting (like Hennessy Gold Cup betting 2009 and King George VI Chase horse racing betting 2009), as well as the Barclays Premier League football betting 2009-2010 and UEFA Champions League football betting 2009-2010 for the hordes of us who like to wager on a more regular basis.

Miss World betting 2009 is after all a bit of good, harmless, dare we say it, old-fashioned fun, that amounts to little more than a diversion to our everyday lives, injecting some traditional glamour into the mundane and allowing us men a bit of escapism into the bargain. Admittedly, when stripped down to its basic components, Miss World betting 2009 is effectively about laying bets on which women appear more attractive than the others in a selection of figure-hugging clothing, which even we understand might seem somewhat antiquated in the 21^st century, but hey, if we all just loosen up a little and adjust our wide-screen opinions accordingly, Miss World betting 2009 will be a win-win situation for everyone.

Miss Puerto Rico Leads Early Miss World Betting 2009 Online Bookmaker Markets

To the Miss World betting 2009 then, and as it stands Miss Puerto Rico, Jennifer Colon, has come from nowhere to head up the outright win betting markets, becoming favourite with a number of the leading internet bookies, with Paddy Power pricing her at 2/1. Next up is Miss Mexico, 23-year old Perla Beltran, who's been installed at odds of 4/1 with Boylesports. Miss South Africa is the third favourite for Miss World betting 2009 success, with Paddy Power backing her chances at 6/1, whilst Miss France (10/1), Miss Belgium, Miss Philippines (15/1), Miss Aruba, Miss Croatia, Miss Malta (17/1), Miss Brazil (18/1), Miss Israel, Miss Namibia (21/1) and Miss India (22/1) also rating high on Paddy Power's Miss World betting 2009 radar.

Further down the pecking order, and Bet365 list Miss USA at 25/1, Miss Dominican Republic, Miss Malaysia and Miss Spain at 28/1. looking at our home nation beauties chances of shining in South Africa, and Miss England (Rachel Christie) makes an appearance in the Miss World betting 2009 markets at 35/1 with Bet365, while Miss Ireland is down at 40/1 with Boylesports. Elsewhere, and Miss Northern Ireland is a 100/1 shot according to Bet365, with Miss Scotland slightly further back in the betting field at 125/1 with the same virtual bookie, the same money as Miss Wales is fetching at this moment in time. Making up the rear is the hardly shabby Miss Zimbabwe, who's a rank 200/1 outsider in the Miss World betting 2009 stakes.

Controversy Never Far Away From Miss World Beauty Pageants

More than just a girlfriend smorgasbord for the late, great Manchester United legend, George Best, the iconic Miss World competition also allowed BBC Strictly Come Dancing presenter (and a priceless piece of classic Beeb furniture) to help himself to future wives from its mightily impressive beauty pool when he hosted the show during its 1970s heyday.

Naturally Miss World has met with the disapproval of raving feminists down the years thanks to large swathes of their members seeing the otherwise entertaining and informative international beauty pageant as providing little more than deprived titillation and cheap thrills to its perceived largely male subscribers. Indeed, the sexism card has been played on many an occasion, with those strongly opposed to the ethos and proud tradition of Miss World claiming that its very existence serves as a commercially viable platform in which to demean and essentially, degrade the virtues of womanhood. Or words to that effect. Irrespective of the underlying fact that all participants travel to some of the world's most exotic, far-flung destinations to challenge for the sought after title, and relish the opportunity to flaunt their sizeable wares (applied intelligence forms part of Miss Worlds remit) of their own free will.

2009 Miss World Contestants Will Have To Prove Their Goal Scoring Credentials For First Time

In 2009 the competition format – in a bid to reach out and touch more than just predominantly male interests – has gone that little bit further to ingratiate itself to its continual (yet ever decreasing) band of critics, by going out its way to introduce a brand, spanking new discipline within the Sports sub category; in which to be judged; and clearly one that wont play up to salivating menfolk in any way, shape or form. That being glamourous contestants donned in fitting football kits attempting to score goals so as to test their goal scoring credentials. If ever, there's one in the eye for feminism. Historically, the more normal territory for Miss World contestants fighting it out for the ultimate prize, where the infamous swimsuit section (whereby lovelies parade around in their skimpy poolside threads, literally) and the Evening-wear/ball-gown section (that's kinda self explanatory; think of the women who hang out around James Bond's casino tables and you get the picture).

Anyway, the hard, almost bullet-point facts regarding this, the 59^th running of Miss World are these; The Miss World 2009 Pageant will officially burst forth into life as of November 7^th 2009 in London, before the beauti-licious road-show takes to the road. Three days later on the 10^th November 2009, the Miss World tour bus will pull into Abu Dhabi's National Express coach terminal in the United Arab Emirates, for a short stay prior to pushing on to South Africa in readiness for November 15^th 2009. The Miss World 2009 Final hosted by the Gallagher Convention Center, Johannesburg, South Africa on December 12^th 2009, will eventually witness one of this year's contestants being handed the crown by defending Miss World, Russia's Ksenia Sukhinova.

Divided up into four neat sub-sections, Miss World 2009 contestants will have the rule run over them in categories including, Sports (the Miss World Sports Final will take place on November 17^th), Beach Beauty (the Miss World Beach Beauty Final will be held on November 24^th), Top Model (Miss World Top Model Final will be staged on November 28^th) and Talent (the Miss World Talent Final will occur on December 6^th 2009).

Representatives From Over 100 Countries Will Vye For Miss World 2009 Crown

As we put fingers to qwerty and commit to screen, and as of early November 2009, 111 'delegates' have been selected to represent their respective countries of origin/birth in Miss World 2009, with nearly every country on the planet having someone with brains and beauty making their way to South Africa via London via Abu Dhabi. You name countries, and their Miss World reps will be sassaying, posturing and posing it out with the very best of them as Christmas approaches; although for the cameramen and journalists afforded the Miss World gig, they'll think their Christmas has come early as they document the ups and downs of an annual competition that's never been more than a snapshot or headline away from controversy during the last couple of decades. Angola, Aruba, Curacao, Egypt, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Honduras, Macedonia FYRO, Martinique, Mongolia, Nepal, Suriname and Tahiti – French Polynesia being some of the names that possibly don't trip off the tongue compared to others, whilst a strong contingent from Eastern Europe (Croatia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia and the Ukraine) will travel to Johannesburg in good spirits, as anyone who's been on a stag night to a host of Eastern European cities will acknowledge boast a comprehensive gene pool from which to dip into. On the subject of which, the representative from the former Russian state of Armenia will be putting her swimwear on in the name of all things Armenian for the very first time in the history of Miss World this year.

Former Great Britain Olympic Sprinter, Linford Christie's Niece Contesting Miss World 2009

Miss World 2009 contestants to keep an eye out for include Miss England 2009, Rachel Sophia Adina Christie, niece of former Olympic sprint champion, Linford 'Lunchbox' Christie, while Miss Scotland representative - Katherine Brown's – claim to near-relative fame is the fact that she went to school with British tennis star, Andy Murray in their native Dunblane, Scotland. A recognized face on the tennis circuit when Murray pitches up in various locations, Brown's said to have remained a close friend of the World Number 3 player who will appear later this month in the ATP World Tour Finals tennis betting 2009 tournament.

Evgeniya Tulchevska will be fronting the Ukrainian bid for Miss World 2009 honours despite rumours surrounding her Miss Ukraine 2009 victory purporting to her very influential businessman boyfriend having played a key role in her win. She's presently continuing her studies at the National Mining University of Ukraine and cites tennis and chocolate as the main loves of her life. Doing their bit to taint the otherwise squeaky clean image of the Miss World 2009 pageant, German contestant, Alessandra Alores fell foul of the international beauty competition's governing body after what were described as 'explicit pictures' of her appeared on the internet, leading to her immediate disqualification and her replacement, Stefanie Peeck being invited to represent Germany. The same fate befell Russia's first choice candidate, Sofia Rudieva, as several compromising images leaked onto the world wide web lead to the Miss World Organization's decision to ban her inclusion in the 2009 extravaganza, to be latterly replaced by Ksenia Shiplova.

Singapore Finally Settle On Miss World Representative

Kerenina Sunny Halim (better known as Miss Indonesia 2009) also raised a few Roger Moore-esque eyebrows when she claimed to have six diplomas, acquired via an online home schooling program that allows students to score themselves. And not being able to speak the native tongue of Indonesia due to half American parentage, whereby her Miss World finalists' questions had to be translated into English) went down a storm with Indonesians. And finally Singapore's original winner, Ris Low has been ruled out of competing in this year's Miss World due to details surfacing regarding credit card fraud, only to be later diagnosed with bipolar disorder to compound her troubles. Then Singaporean runner-up Claire Lee was forced to decline the invitation to take Low's place on the grounds of a back injury which would prevent her from standing for long periods of time. The somewhat poisoned chalice was then handed to Pilar Carmelita Arlando, shortly before she was pilloried for her lack of rudimentary knowledge of all things Singapore by the general public.

Fantastic, if not grossly stereotypical facets relating to the whole Miss World mantra become playful if viewed on face value. Take for example the web pageee of Miss Bulgaria 2009, Antonia Petrova, who says, and we paraphrase, 'I welcome you and hope it will be interesting to meet with me closely, especially for those that don't know me and are interested in my way of life.' She goes on to say, 'the information provided here is related to my profecional (sic) activities as Miss Bulgaria but not only – charity campaigns, media and fashion events, also my personal biography and gallery'. OK, it's only fair to admit something will always be lost in translation (not just grammar, punctual and spelling), yet we really cant get enough of this beauty pageant rhetoric and dialogue which forever seems trapped in the 1970s, much like core aspects of the Miss World spectacle per se. Which of course we all salute.