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- Time person of the year is an issue featuring a person, a group, an idea, or an object that "for better or for worse... has done the most to influence the events of the year"
- Vladamir Putin has been introduced as Evens favourite with bookies to be featured in 2022 and score a second cover since his 2007
- Doctors, Nurses and 1st Responders are overdue the cover over the last 2 years
- Betting sites didn't have 2021 winner Elon Musk in the betting last year, so anything can happen.
First Awarded in 1927 The Tie person of the year is chosen by Time Magazine, following which an issue is created featuring that person group or idea. In specials betting markets, bookmakers offer odds on the likelihood of who might end up on the cover.
The featured person group or idea is chosen to have "for better or for worse... had done the most to influence the events of the year"
Vladamir Putin is the proverbial front runner 2022, and bolted out of the stalls as early as February.
A former winner in 2007, if Putin were to make the cover a second time, he would join the likes of Barack Obama, Winston Churchill, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, George W Bush and Richard Nixon - Joseph Stalin also was named twice, whilst Adolf Hitler only managed it the once.
Time Person of the Year Betting Odds
| Candidate | Odds | Probability |
|---|---|---|
| Vladimir Putin | Evens | 50% |
| Doctors, Nurses, 1st Responders | 3.10 | 32.26% |
| Epidemiologists | 4.33 | 23.09% |
| WHO | 6.00 | 16.67% |
| Donald Trump | 7.00 | 14.29% |
| Antony Fauci | 8.00 | 12.50% |
| Kamala Harris | 8.50 | 11.76% |
| Joe Biden | 10.00 | 10.00% |
Former Winners
The role call for Time Person of the Year Betting and Odds is prestigious for sure, and in the last couple of years, Doctors, Nurses, 1st Responders, Epidemiologists and all things connected with Covid have been to the for eof the specials betting markets, but in 2021, Elon Musk was an unexpected winner for his contribution to technological development, at a time when he was the richest man on the planet.
| Time Person Of The Year Since 2010
|
Winner/s
|
|---|---|
| 2021 | Elon Musk |
| 2020 | Joe Biden/Kamala Harris |
| 2019 | Greta Thunberg |
| 2018 | The Guardians - Journalists Under Fire |
| 2017 | The Silence Breakers - Me Too Movement |
| 2016 | President Donald Trump |
| 2015 | Angela Merkel |
| 2014 | Ebola Health Care Workers |
| 2013 | Pope Francis |
| 2012 | President Barack Obama |
| 2011 | Global Protestors |
| 2010 | Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook |
