CANBERRA Olympic swimmer Alicia Coutts has been tipped to be the Australian flag-bearer at the London Olympics closing ceremony. 

Online bookmaker tomwaterhouse.com has listed Coutts as the favourite at $3, saying she has raced up the betting market as a result of being “Australia’s highest achiever of a thus far disappointing Olympics”.

Site managing director Tom Waterhouse says Alicia “has been Australia’s brightest star of London 2012 up to this point.”

“No Australian has won more medals at a single Olympic Games than Alicia and she played a starring role in Australia’s against-the-odds success in the women’s 4×100 metres freestyle relay final on the opening day of competition,” he said.

Waterhouse said cyclist Anna Meares was the original favourite but she’s dropped to $51.

If Coutts is successful it will mean the two Australian flag-bearers for the London Olympic Games were both from the capital; with Canberra-based basketball player Lauren Jackson carrying the flag at the opening ceremony.

List of athletes tipped to be Australia’s Closing Ceremony flag bearer: 

$3 Alicia Coutts
$4 Sally Pearson
$5 Michael Diamond
$6 Malcolm Page
$13 Jamie Dwyer
$26 Steve Hooker
$26 Matthew Mitcham

$34 Tom Slingsby
$51 Anna Meares
$67 Mathew Belcher
$67 Iain Jensen
$67 Nathan Outteridge
$67 Melanie Schlanger
$67 Emily Seebohm
$67 Ken Wallace
$81 Annette Edmondson
$81 Jared Tallent
$81 Sam Willoughby
$101 Cate Campbell
$101 Lauren Mitchell