17 July 2008 – Sports fans are confident that Dwain Chambers will be able to compete at the Beijing Olympics in August. Players of Pikum!, the online game where you compete with friends to predict what's going to happen, are 90 per cent certain that he will participate at the Games this year.

The sprinter will find out tomorrow if his High Court challenge against his Olympic ban will be successful.

Sports and entertainment fans can predict the outcome of plenty of other upcoming events such as football’s Premiership, rugby’s Australia v South Africa and Formula One’s German Grand Prix.

Australia is the marginal favourite at the moment according to Pikum’s! rugby
fans predictions on the Australia v South Africa game on Saturday. So far 60 per cent believe that Australia will win and score the first try - http://tinyurl.com/6brja9

British fans are also getting behind Lewis Hamilton for the German Grand Prix on Sunday with 50 per cent predicting he will win the race and 70 per cent believing he will be on the podium - http://tinyurl.com/6hlw9t

Sean Glass, founder and managing director of Pikum!, says: “It will be interesting to see how accurate the Pikum! players are at predicting these events. It’s certain that they will all be watching them unfold very closely and hoping their predictions come true, as in each Pikum – the best predictor wins the prize pool.”

You can also play Pikums on a wide range of sports, including tennis, cricket, boxing, and mixed martial arts. Pikum! continues to add events in the entertainment, sports, and current events categories weekly.

Pikum! launched in beta on 6 May and can be played at www.Pikum.com.

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About Pikum!
Pikum! is a new kind of betting game created and played by users online at Pikum.com. The games can be played for fun or money (money betting services are offered through Pikum! Worldwide Limited, which holds a full eGambling license from the Alderney Gambling Control Commission).

The company has attracted top quality financial support and is backed by Virgin USA and First Round Capital. The company’s founders, Sean Glass, Logan Lindsell, and Johannes Larcher are serial entrepreneurs and have assembled an experienced international management team with experience from companies such as Yahoo!, Overture and Higher One.