is it the world cup or the olympic games that had the highest rate of spectators?

Answer 1

The 2006 FIFA World Cup stands undisputed as the biggest television event on the planet. Four years ago, the cup was telecast in 213 countries, which carried a total of 41,100 hours of programming. The cumulative audience over the 25 match days was 28.8 billion viewers. (That, of course, is several times the population of the Earth. So it counted a viewer each time he or she watched a match — and, obviously, many viewers watched two or more matches.)

The viewership for the World Cup final was pegged at 1.3 billion. By contrast, the NCAA men's basketball tournament games reached the low eight figures, at most, for individual games and maybe 24 million cumulatively. Last year's championship game was seen by 45.6 million viewers in the United States.

Though the Olympics are the most diverse sporting event in the world, they are perhaps not the most popular. The FIFA World Cup in football (soccer) attracts more global interest, as measured by the larger television audience and Formula 1 auto racing also competes with the Olympics in terms of television viewership as well.

For example, the '96 Atlanta games anticipated average daily worldwide viewership of about 2 billion people, but they fell far short of that.

Answer 2

The World Cup is based on one individual sport where as the Olympics both Summer and Winter have a whole host of sports vying for attention. Breaking it down further some sports like athletics the blue ribbon events are more popular where as other sports are in the minority. The sprints will attract alot of attention from the media and aspectators wherelesser known sports that are just as attractive to watch will not, similar to watching the smaller lesser known soccer teams competing at the World Cup will not. I'm not sure but I would love to go to the Olympics.

Answer 3

Maybe the World Cup