What are the most popular Olympic sports?

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Track & Field. By some distance the most popular and for many the only event people truly watch in the Games is the 100m track.

Football is the worlds most popular sport but at the Olympics is not really taken seriously as its made up largely of players under age 23...also the Football World Cup as the worlds biggest sporting event and twice the size of the Olympics ..its the Holy Grail.

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Based on participation at the Olympics, you would have to say the Track and Field events are the most popular. It does get the largest venue and largest viewers. Of the T&F, 100m is the most glamorous and most popular. Gymnastics is second. The women's all around is probably the most watched. But it is hard to narrow it down to 15 since Track and Field is many different events going on at the same time.

== Answer ==No, by far figure skating is the most popular olymic sport as far as the amount of people watching the Olympics on television.

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