Most Popular Sports of the Olympic Games
The Top Ten
Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of exercises requiring strength, flexibility, balance and control. This is the best sport to watch at the Olympic Games because their is a lot of high drama in this sport. For instance, Svetlana Khorkina was a diva at Atlanta, Sydney, and Athens. Athens was the games when she said that her all around win was stolen by Carly Patterson of the USA and thought that her win was a fixed. Then you have the talented stars like Oksana Chusovitina, who went to 7 olympics and 43 years old. She had a suffering story like when her son was diagnosed with leukemia and then at Beijing when she won that silver medal, she helped him to make sure he didn't have leukemia anymore.
This is the most beautiful sport to watch because there are actual routines planned for it. They are made to look lovely to watch, to show off athletic skill. A lot of Olympic sports are just a game, gymnastics is made to be a thrill to watch on purpose! I can't wait!
With other sports, you can try it out or do it casually like football, basketball, handball, swimming, etc. But you can't even pretend to do gymnastics casually unless you're trained for it. It's intense competition and they do it with grace and ease nonetheless
This is 100 % the best sport. All the gymnasts are so strong, powerful, graceful, and fast. There are actually routines that are planned out and they look so cool. They get to show off there personality. I do gymnastics and I think it is so exciting!
When people think of the Olympics they think of athletics. That's why closing and opening ceremonies are always held in the athletics ceremonies. I don't watch the Olympic for football, tennis, cricket etc because the Olympics is not the pinnacle of those sports, that's why the Olympics is all about athletics.
Track and field is no doubt the hardest event in the olympics. People talk more about gymnastics because the gymnasts look ridiculous and act like babies, but the real sport is track and field, minus the discus and hammer throw.
Surely, athletics especially 100m, 200m and 4 x 100m relay are the most watched events in any Olympics because they generate special interest.
Without athletics there would be no Olympic Games. That is why it is shameful that the IOC does not do more to genuinely tackle and punsh the scourge of doping.
Swimming is one of the most popular sports - if not the most popular sport in the Olympics simply because everyone can relate to swimming. Swimming is an easy sport to follow and to root for and everyone has swam before or seen someone swimming. Not to mention swimmers are super good looking and easy on the eyes!
The only sport I specifically tune in to watch is aiming. The gymnasts seem mediocre in the last few Olympic Games. I do like beach volleyball also.
I love the Australian team swimming is my best sport but second favourite after archery
Michael phelps best olympian of all time swimming is the greatest
Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net. It has been an Olympic discipline since the 1996 Games. Men love beach volleyball because of the skimpy outfit of the girls. They should wear proper athletic outfits, like the other Olympic athletes not bikinis. It looks unprofessional for the Olympics. It's OK for the beach, perhaps.
Without this ratings would lose a large demographic.
Kerri and April are the best beach ball players in the world
It sucks so bad
Basketball is a sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high mounted to a backboard at each end. Only sport that's good in summer, best over all is hockey. I mean really? It's the only sport in the summer olympics that anyone cares about besides the olympics
The dream team was the funnest time to watch the olympics
U can't say that the dream team wasn't fun to watch
The best way Just like nba players in
It's just fantastic looking at 105+ category lifters' performance
I agree that this was the best
So boring to watch... OH LOOK, SOMEONE LIFTED A METAL BAR AND PUT IT DOWN AND LIFTED IT UP AGAIN AND PUT IT DOWN AGAIN. hence the sarcasm
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. Every point is exciting. The best game in the olympics.
Good for building muscle and for competing!
It should be a televised sport every where
The most entertaining of all
Most countries like soccer.
UK, Spain, France, Italy, Germany have the famous leagues.
(I love Red Devils! (South Korea team)
Soccer shouldn't be in the Olympics it's so boring. RUGBY all the way.
It's so amazing, everyone should play it.
It's football
Not soccer
Cycling is a favorite, got 4 or 5 of them. Even reaches the Olympics as a contender. Many unique models which has biking even more so interesting. A good contraption, and has been proving that for a while now.
Cycling or Bicycles are intelligent and remain a great alternative over static or team sports.
No matter how many people are just too cute
Bast sports in cycling
Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent or between two teams of two players each. Its fun and it uses all your muscles in your body,
The Contenders
So tough on the body but good for you.
Archery is the sport, practice or skill of using a bow to propel arrows. The word comes from the Latin arcus. Great sport. Requires the same amount of training but must keep adrenaline in check in order to aim and focus accurately.
Archery is an amazing sport, and is severely underestimated. I lovethis sport.
Yes it was the best thing ever
I like arhcery
Diving is a very undermined sport. Lots of people think they can just "pick the sport up" and that it is easy, but that is far from the truth. I takes lots of concentration, practice, and uses every muscle in your body. It is a very mental sport. People don't realize how fast you travel in the air and how much water can really hurt. When a diver jumps off ten meter (equivalent to a 3 story building) they travel at least 60mph before they hit the water. Synchronized diving is one of the hardest to master as well!
Diving is the best sport by far because it takes lots of skill and it is amazing to watch. Tom Daley for gold!
It is one of the most majestic sports to watch. I would rank it among or near gymnastics and swimming!
The tom 2 sports are swimming and gymnastics. Diving is basically gymnastics in the water, so it is logical that it should be.
Diving is so hectic
Toughest sport in the world: aerobic, anaerobic, technical, tactical
Best sport in the world thank you japan
Most beautiful sport in the world.
A lot of love has to go into it
Fast paced and action packed
Love Crista cullen
You get to see beautiful partnerships between horse and man, each one unique. Expect thrilling rides in cross country with treacherous jumps, unbelievable skill and beauty in dressage and massive flawless jumps in showjumping. Amazing.
If you have ever watched show jumping you would know of the incredible tension in the jump off!
Equestrian is my favorite Olympic sport
It's got horses. What more could you want?
Ping-pong, or table tennis, is a sport where players hit a lightweight ball back and forth across a table. Table Tennis, Handball, Football, Gymnastics, Football and Aquatics (inc diving) are the best in my opinion.
Because it really need a skills and determination. and also you need a concentration
I love this game so many punch ups and fights. hopefully jamie soward wins gold again
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" and "doubles". Unlike other sports, big money has never tainted or entered the professional badminton arena. Therefore, from beginner to professional it is still a sport played for the sheer love and enjoyment of it. Just look at the immense dedication and extreme fitness levels required - and the height some players get in the jump smash - incredible. Hitting the shuttle at just under 500 kph (over 300 mph) make this the fastest racket sport in the world. And all for the love of the sport and not the money! Played all over the world by ALL age groups Badminton is simply not covered enough by the media - why not? - no big money to be won!
I love watching and playing badminton. Even when it's not professional and I'm watching the little kids at practice play it's so fun to watch
How dare this game is played! it is a copyright smaller version of tennis and should be banned. also so many injuries occur it's so dangerous
This sport is developing so fast
I want to be a part of olympic shooting and so I have started 10 meter air rifle shooting. Because I wanr give an another level for shooting in the world
My friend shoots clay pidgins and got 39 out of 40
What if someone shoots someone's head off
Shooting is very good
Boxing is a martial art and combat sport in which two people wearing protective gloves throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring.. Well... Ireland do really well in this sport and have a big team in it and it is really entertaining to watch.
Boxing is a man sport
Swimming is an individual or team sport and activity. Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, with events in freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly. Swimming is one of the most challenging sports out there, soI have to give swimmers a lot of credit.
Great sport if you want to keep your fitness up. I swim competitively and I love it.
I swim lots and it rules: it keeps you fit and healthy.
AND SHOUT OUT TO pugs United
Wrestling is a combat sport involving grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Great sport.. One of those authentic sports like running where one does not need million dollar equipment.. And every nation can take part
Best all round sport
Sport of the Sports
Fast, very athletic, tactical and just an all-round epic sport
You have to fast on your feet
It Has An Eye Staring Contest
Fast and emotional..Very imprevisible sometimes..really fun