How popular is hockey in the Olympics?

Answer 1

Very popular! Along with figure skating, hockey is one of the most watched sporting events in the winter Olympics. The 2011 Vancuover Olympic Hockey Final between the US and Canada was watched by 27.6 million viewers in the US alone, making it the most-watched hockey game on American television since two games in the 1980 games from Lake Placid, headed by the famous U.S. upset over the Soviet Union which drew 32.8 million TV viewers. The Canadian audience was 16.6 million viewers - representing half the total population of Canada. It would have been comparable to about 150 million Americans watching the game. And about 80 percent of the population, or 26.5 million people, watched at least part of the game. Not to mention the millions of others in Europe and throughout the world who watched the game.