heywoodu 13,540 Posted April 4, 2017 Author #731 Share Posted April 4, 2017 3 hours ago, VolleyRuller96 said: No handball seems pretty strange... Plus Formula 1 more popular than Volleyball, Hockey, or Boxing i don't really believe that Top 5 would be pretty possible if not for cricket. How is it strange to see F1 is more popular than volleyball or especially ice hockey or boxing? F1 seems to have large numbers of fans worldwide, also in countries without a major driver, whereas apart from Brazil I wouldn't know a country where volleyball is extremely popular and the same thing goes for ice hockey (not Brazil, but Canada and obviously Czechoslovenia). F1 being more popular than boxing worldwide seems like an easy guess for me. I also doubt athletics would be this high...it doesn't seem like a sport with a real big fan base I mean, everyone knows Usain Bolt, but I wonder how many people there are who could mention 2-3 top athletes in half of the disciplines. Basically, my opinion of these 11: F1 is too low, athletics is too high, cricket is too high but looking at the numbers it's correct I guess If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,540 Posted April 4, 2017 Author #732 Share Posted April 4, 2017 2 hours ago, Quasit said: I don't go after such lists. What about Fencing? Where else do we have 200+ participants in World Cup stages? Which other sports allow 200+ participants/sets such a low bar for entry in World Cup stages, one could also ask dcro 1 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,540 Posted April 4, 2017 Author #733 Share Posted April 4, 2017 2 hours ago, bestmen said: 24 Skiing Downhill Skiing is a big event in europe and its also one of the biggest winter sports. This right here shows why not to take these things too serious..."downhill skiing is a big event" and they're comparing that with entire sports? Yes, alpine skiing is popular in countries like Austria and Switzerland, but not specifically 'downhill skiing', that's like saying "athletics is popular because people watch the 100m" If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianlu33 3,570 Posted April 4, 2017 #734 Share Posted April 4, 2017 Skiing is only 24th and MMA is 13th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDOG 2,199 Posted April 4, 2017 #735 Share Posted April 4, 2017 MMA is probably accurate, it's becoming really popular (to my dismay, cuz it's garbage). Ski is not popular, you guys just live in your european bubble And I agree with Heywoodu, F1 is lower than I thought. Cars in general are popular even in countries without high-profile racers (my country for example). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rybak 2,684 Posted April 4, 2017 #736 Share Posted April 4, 2017 35 minut temu, heywoodu napisał: How is it strange to see F1 is more popular than volleyball or especially ice hockey or boxing? F1 seems to have large numbers of fans worldwide, also in countries without a major driver, whereas apart from Brazil I wouldn't know a country where volleyball is extremely popular and the same thing goes for ice hockey (not Brazil, but Canada and obviously Czechoslovenia). F1 being more popular than boxing worldwide seems like an easy guess for me. I also doubt athletics would be this high...it doesn't seem like a sport with a real big fan base I mean, everyone knows Usain Bolt, but I wonder how many people there are who could mention 2-3 top athletes in half of the disciplines. Basically, my opinion of these 11: F1 is too low, athletics is too high, cricket is too high but looking at the numbers it's correct I guess I didn't knew that such country exists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VolleyRuller96 264 Posted April 5, 2017 #737 Share Posted April 5, 2017 8 hours ago, heywoodu said: How is it strange to see F1 is more popular than volleyball or especially ice hockey or boxing? F1 seems to have large numbers of fans worldwide, also in countries without a major driver, whereas apart from Brazil I wouldn't know a country where volleyball is extremely popular and the same thing goes for ice hockey (not Brazil, but Canada and obviously Czechoslovenia). F1 being more popular than boxing worldwide seems like an easy guess for me. I also doubt athletics would be this high...it doesn't seem like a sport with a real big fan base I mean, everyone knows Usain Bolt, but I wonder how many people there are who could mention 2-3 top athletes in half of the disciplines. Basically, my opinion of these 11: F1 is too low, athletics is too high, cricket is too high but looking at the numbers it's correct I guess Kay, I don't know about Boxing as it's not my number 1 sport,maybe i am wrong but i still would argue there are more fans of volleyball in countries like Poland, Italy, Iran,Bulgaria, China, Peru, Thailand (especially women's, some of their players reach massive number of "likes" on fb - just adding as i see "social media presence" as the criteriium) and in Ice Hockey I believe the popularity should be higher in the scandinavian countries like Finland,Sweden, obviously Czech Republic, Slovakia, Canada (but that what's you posted) or maybe even the U.S or Russia Here in Poland formula 1 never seemed to really catch like for example ski jumping, even when R.Kubica was amongst the best, and now it's mostly a fringe sport - but i don't deny it might be more popular in other countries. Oh, BTW you also might wanna edit your post, otherwise i fear our Slovakian Admin will find your address and personally murder you for that "CzechoSlovenia" mistake My favourite Volleyball position: LIBERO. You ask why? Look here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyIOarNAONk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,540 Posted April 5, 2017 Author #738 Share Posted April 5, 2017 (edited) 27 minutes ago, VolleyRuller96 said: Kay, I don't know about Boxing as it's not my number 1 sport,maybe i am wrong but i still would argue there are more fans of volleyball in countries like Poland, Italy, Iran,Bulgaria, China, Peru, Thailand (especially women's, some of their players reach massive number of "likes" on fb - just adding as i see "social media presence" as the criteriium) and in Ice Hockey I believe the popularity should be higher in the scandinavian countries like Finland,Sweden, obviously Czech Republic, Slovakia, Canada (but that what's you posted) or maybe even the U.S or Russia Here in Poland formula 1 never seemed to really catch like for example ski jumping, even when R.Kubica was amongst the best, and now it's mostly a fringe sport - but i don't deny it might be more popular in other countries. Oh, BTW you also might wanna edit your post, otherwise i fear our Slovakian Admin will find your address and personally murder you for that "CzechoSlovenia" mistake Mistake? Personally I think F1 is one of the most global sports in the world in terms of TV audiences. It's shown live on TV in a huge number of countries, most of which have no race or driver or even a big history in the sport. I doubt volleyball is shown live in as many countries world wide to be honest (we were 4th at the Olympics yet the only time it's live on TV is during the Olympics or maybe with luck world/European champs, but definitely not club volleyball unless maybe it's the season's final....whereas on the other hand we didn't have a serious history in F1 and didn't have a serious driver for ages yet every single race was always shown live including preview/review etc ) Sports like ski jumping, speed skating etc are really popular in a very small amount of countries, but definitely aren't so widespread as F1. I'd say the same for athletics, but maybe they also count the number of people who do a certain kind of sport and of course every country has some local athletics clubs. I would be surprised if Diamond League viewer ratings are anywhere close to F1 though, apart from a few die hard athletics fans I never ever hear anyone talk about athletics at all Edited April 5, 2017 by heywoodu If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griff88 1,735 Posted April 5, 2017 #739 Share Posted April 5, 2017 12 hours ago, bestmen said: the rest of ranking ,the handball is 22 , the explain is: 12 American Football Biggest sport in USA and the most lucrative and powerful professional sport league of all sports is NFL which generates over $10 billion a year in revenue. Super bowl is the most watched sport event in US. 13 MMA Mixed Martial Arts is getting more and more popular with the emergence of UFC. Its a big sport in Brazil, USA while spreading across Europe slowly. It highly rewarding financially and might overtake Boxing in a few years. 14 MotoGP It is one of the motorcycle racing series. MotoGP is the premium class competition with huge TV following around the world. Mostly popular in Spain, Italy, Netherlands but growing in England, USA, Germany and Middle-east. 15 Field Hockey Field Hockey has fallen from grace even where it was most popular India, Pakistan. It still has some varied interest but nothing like 20 years ago where it was major sport in India, Pakistan and fairly popular in Australia, Malaysia, Holland, Germany, England and South Africa. 16 Badminton Huge popularity in Asia specifically countries like Malaysia, China, India, Korea etc. Its more of a hobby sport in Europe and Americas 17 Cycling Very popular in some major european countries like France, Germany, Italy, Spain, England and Netherlands. Tour de France is one of the most watched competition in the world. Cycling is part of school games around the world. 18 Swimming Another fairly global sport but only attracts popularity during Olympic games. US. Michael Phelps is the most famous athlete in swimming having won record 22 gold medals in Olympic games. 19 Snooker Its very region specific game with only China and England orgnizing major competitions in Snooker. But it is also a major hooby game which is played everywhere around the world on non-professional level. 20 Table Tennis Professional only China, Indonesia, Malaysia and India has some interest in Table Tennis but in terms of casual playing it is one of the most played sport around the world as a hobby. 21 Gymnastics Some interest in all the major countries like Korea, US, Japan, China and Germnay. Like many other Olympics game Gymnastic only get some news time during Olympics. 22 Handball Some interest in european countries like Russia, France Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania and a few other easter european nations. Some countries also have semi pro-leagues but only tv coverage is during world championships 23 Wrestling Its more of a cultural sport in some parts of the world. In US its very popular among teens growing up. It is played on fairly large level in Japan, Turkey, Russian, India and Pakistan etc (dont confuse it with WWE Wrestling) 24 Skiing Downhill Skiing is a big event in europe and its also one of the biggest winter sports. 25 Horse Racing Horse Racing is fairly medium size sport in US, UK, UAE and Australia. Mainly a gambling sport Pfftt so funny Indonesia is omitted from badminton and shows up in table tennis instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,540 Posted April 5, 2017 Author #740 Share Posted April 5, 2017 And Iran is not mentioned in wrestling, interesting If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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