Did FIFA overrun the Olympics in 2022? It seems to be the headline for what major events happened this year. It looks like Queen Elizabeth's death and funeral is far behind the FIFA World Cup.
And even though the Tour de France has 3.5 billion viewers, so would be the biggest sporting event in the world, it only shows up in one article. It is the World Cup and the Olympics that are compared.
So which is it? FIFA or the Summer Olympics?
Here are Quora answers:
1. "Due to the fact that last Olympics Games and last FIFA World Cup were in the same country, it will be easier to compare both.- During the Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro received 1.2 millions visitors. According to Rio’s city hall, 410 thousands of those were not from Brazil
- During FIFA world cup Rio received 886 thousands tourists, 471 thousands of those were foreign tourists."
Of course FIFA world cup have more than one host city, so there were much more tourists than this. Also, Rio received less tourists from Brazil because there were lots of other cities hosting FIFA World Cup." 2. "If you talk about audience, both events are watched for about half of the Earth. Fifa World Cup reached 3.2 billions viewers, while Olympic Games 3.5 billions."
Quora has many more answers, but most are opinion-based. Here are more analytical articles' answers.
1. The number of countries participating: in the 2018 FIFA World Cup, 208+1 countries participated in qualifying events which narrowed down to 32 in the main event. Meanwhile, a total of 206 nations participated in the 2016 Rio Olympics.
2. Younger audiences show a preference for FIFA
3. Differences are observed based on gender. The World Cup is the favourite event of men globally (55%) with the Summer Olympics at 52%. For women it is Summery Olympics 47% and World Cup 35%.
4. Gamers are markedly more drawn to the World Cup than the overall population
Finding out how many watched the 2022 series will likely take some time. My bet is that FIFA wins. The expectation was over 5 billion people. What do you think? | 
