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Volleyball is the Olympics' most watched sport
Harvey:
Beach and indoor are, by far, the most watched Olympic sports. More people watch these sports than the athletics or the swimming or the basketball. For those of you who want to see some ridiculous jumping, I'd encourage you to take a look at the USA beach team, in particular Phil Dalhausser. One of the best athletes in the world, IMO.
Can't wait to see world ranked 22 Australia cause some upsets in the indoor discipline. Who's keen for the volleyball? :p
LBSS:
is that true or did you make it up? my extremely brief google search showed that, based on the number of articles published about each type of event, the most "popular" summer olympics sport was athletics by a long way; volleyball was 16th. http://www.topendsports.com/world/lists/popular-sport/olympics.htm.
not hating, i like watching volleyball a lot. have you seen viewership data? can you send it? i'm genuinely curious.
AGC:
Somehow I think the popularity of beach volleyball has a bit more to do with the hot women in bikinis:
https://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=beach+volleyball&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1280&bih=929&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=3SIWULcb5dSKB4OLgfAO
Harvey:
--- Quote from: LBSS on July 30, 2012, 12:14:56 am ---is that true or did you make it up? my extremely brief google search showed that, based on the number of articles published about each type of event, the most "popular" summer olympics sport was athletics by a long way; volleyball was 16th. http://www.topendsports.com/world/lists/popular-sport/olympics.htm.
not hating, i like watching volleyball a lot. have you seen viewership data? can you send it? i'm genuinely curious.
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The combination of the two disciplines, indoor and beach combine to be the most viewed overall sport, I believe. At least, that's what I was told by the director of Volleyball Australia.
LBSS:
--- Quote from: Harvey on July 30, 2012, 07:52:54 am ---
--- Quote from: LBSS on July 30, 2012, 12:14:56 am ---is that true or did you make it up? my extremely brief google search showed that, based on the number of articles published about each type of event, the most "popular" summer olympics sport was athletics by a long way; volleyball was 16th. http://www.topendsports.com/world/lists/popular-sport/olympics.htm.
not hating, i like watching volleyball a lot. have you seen viewership data? can you send it? i'm genuinely curious.
--- End quote ---
The combination of the two disciplines, indoor and beach combine to be the most viewed overall sport, I believe. At least, that's what I was told by the director of Volleyball Australia.
--- End quote ---
i see. well, i can't find anything on this and, despite my near-overwhelming desire to find viewership data broken down by sport, i have to stop. one of you fuckers without a job, go look this up.
by the metric in the article i linked to, beach and indoor combined would be the 7th-most-popular sport.
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