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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
I'm kinda confused. I assume you're referring to my opening line about the World Cup being a much bigger event. Certainly much bigger than the Winter Olympics, and still bigger, but not by as much, as the Summer Olympics. I mean the freaking World Cup draw, where they pool off the teams, gets over 300 million viewers. Just insane.
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I think 900 million were estimated to have watched the opening ceremonies for the London Olympics
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/0...8760V820120807
And 4.7 billion are estimated to have watched some part of the Olympics in Beijing.
http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/news/story?id=3571042
In comparison.... 700 million watched the World Cup final in 2010
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blo...de-watch-53991
And 3.2 billion watched at least a minute (2.2 billion watched at least 20 minutes).
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive...ewsid=1473143/
Although fairly comparable numbers... I think the Olympics is still bigger...