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I have been covering about Miss World 2007 for the last few days. I noticed that in the last few days, in Google News search about Miss World 2007, a good portion of the news items came from online gambling sites. Over 1 million bets were put on Miss World 2007! So, I guess that online betters are very happy that their favorite Zi Lin Zhang has won the crown of Miss World 2007.

OG Paper wrote:

The winner of the 2007 Miss World became the odds favorite Miss China. The "home girl" Zhang Zilin became the 57th Miss World in Sanya, China, in front of the partisan audience. At the beginning the British bookmaker Bet 365 was offering odds on Miss China at 13/2, but quickly made the Chinese contestant the favorite and the latest odds on Miss China were posted at 7/4. Miss Angola came second and Miss Mexico finished third in the Miss World 2007 beauty pageant on Saturday. The other two finalists were Miss Trinidad & Tobago and Miss Sweden. According to some reports, over 2 billion people tune in to watch the Miss World 2007.  

So, the people who placed a bet on Zi Lin Zhang will be happy today as they will earn some money. The gamblers are happy too as they would have healthy profit from this event. Earlier this year, Riyo Mori caused a huge upset by wining the crown of Miss Universe 2007 Against all the Online Gambling Odds.