Posted on 07/26/2024 5:48:15 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The U.S. viewing audience for the 2024 Paris Games is poised to be the smallest for any prior Summer Olympics Gallup has measured. Thirty-five percent of U.S. adults plan to watch a great deal (10%) or fair amount (25%) of the games, which is down from 48% measured for the 2016 Olympics and figures just shy of 60% from 2000 to 2012.
Gallup has measured viewing intentions for each Summer Olympics since 2000, except for the 2020 Olympic Games that were delayed until 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition to the 35% who plan to watch at least a fair amount of this year’s games, 34% say they will not watch much and 30% do not plan to watch any. The latter figure is up from 21% in 2016 and is more than double the 2000 to 2012 readings, which ranged from 12% to 14%.
Americans’ lack of interest in this year’s Olympics is also evident in the 56% who are aware the games are being held in France.
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Go woke, go broke...ain’t watching much if at all. I’ll stick with reruns of Cheers on Pluto TV.
Hilarious opening the other day.......guy walks into cheers bar who hasn’t been in it in 20 years..he says he hasn’t been in there since the 60s. Points out a bunch of changes to Woody.....the staircase used to be there, this used to be that....and finally says something about some tile on a wall. Woody says......where, what wall? The guy says...the wall right behind Norm. LOL!!......Camera pans to Norm there, sitting with a beer reading the paper....
Norm’s been there for decades..hilarious.......
Same here. The best ones I remember in recent past were the 2010 Vancouver winter Olympics and 2012 London summer games and maybe PyeongChang 2018.
They managed to represent their history and culture in a reasonable/realistic fashion, without going too far over the top to try to out do someone else.
Yes, you read that correctly. Breakdancing, that 1980s trend for ghetto children, is an Olympics "sport".
https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/olympics/breaking-paris-olympic-2024-what-is-explained-rcna145754
They're really not even trying anymore.
Break dancing as an Olympic sport?
Yet no baseball or softball?
Have the Olympics gone woke? I haven’t paid attention so don’t know what they are doing.
Israel is there. They have there own security force.
Mrs Guano and I were active in Special Olympics and the program is more than worthwhile. To see the youngsters give their best to ski, skate, or swim and run in competition is heartening.
They are “Special “ because, knowing their limitations, they compete anyway.
I’m not watching…..PERIOD! Obtw, when the muslims take over Paris, which seems to be very soon, watch them throw the JOTOS off the Eiffel Tower!
Turned on opening ceremony for all of 5 minutes. Beyond stupid. Never was my thing but dumber than every this time…
Smart.
With lebrainless bearing the flag, which he hates btw, really put a bad taste in my mouth.
High fives and kudos to Mr & Mrs Guano and the Special Olympics! Good for you all!
They had drag queers mocking “The last supper”. I don’t watch it but a friend sent me a link.
Thank you, what a beautiful testimony to what USED TO BE the whole idea of sports!
Sporting events this time around:
Aquatics
Artistic swimming (2)
Diving (8)
Marathon swimming (2)
Swimming (35)
Water polo (2)
Archery (5)
Athletics (48)
Badminton (5)
Basketball
Basketball (2)
3×3 basketball (2)
Boxing (13)
Breaking (2)
Canoeing
Slalom (6)
Sprint (10)
Cycling
BMX freestyle (2)
BMX racing (2)
Mountain biking (2)
Road (4)
Track (12)
Equestrian
Dressage (2)
Eventing (2)
Jumping (2)
Fencing (12)
Field hockey (2)
Football (2)
Golf (2)
Gymnastics
Artistic (14)
Rhythmic (2)
Trampoline (2)
Handball (2)
Judo (15)
Modern pentathlon (2)
Rowing (14)
Rugby sevens (2)
Sailing (10)
Shooting (15)
Skateboarding (4)
Sport climbing (4)
Surfing (2)
Table tennis (5)
Taekwondo (8)
Tennis (5)
Triathlon (3)
Volleyball
Volleyball (2)
Beach volleyball (2)
Weightlifting (10)
Wrestling
Freestyle (12)
Greco-Roman (6)
There are no more athletes..just celebrities.
Marko
People are tired of politics. And now EVERYTHING is politics.
Sorry, not watching the Globohomo Games.
I heard it rained on their big opening parade. Oh well......
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