Velodrome in Japan mistakenly pays out 10 times value of winning bet
January 9, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
The Shizuoka Municipal Government building (Mainichi/Kenichi Mito) SHIZUOKA A municipal bicycle racing track here mistakenly forked over more than 2 million yen (about $19,000) on a winning betting ticket worth one-tenth that, and the central Japan city is asking the recipient to return the difference. According to a Jan. 8 announcement by the Shizuoka Municipal Government, an unidentified man collected the sum from Shizuoka Keirin velodrome in the city s Suruga Ward on Dec. 31 at shortly past 10 a.m. The man had made a winning off-track wager on a KEIRIN Grand Prix 2020 race held the day before at the Hiratsuka Keirin velodrome in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo.