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I am happy to hear it! The only reason I picked on Greco-Roman wrestling is because the International Olympic Committee is currently considering whether to drop this sport (also fencing) from the Olympics, so I thought maybe this sport was not maintaining the interest of the public.Swimming and Greco-Roman wrestling championships are widely covered prime time television entertainment in many countries. I haven't seen any attendance problems in the stands either.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/olympics_2012/4464719.stm
As for the U.S., I was curious enough to look up the live audience attendance figures. (These are for the year 2000, for the United States and Canada.)
Baseball, 116,393,300 -- 27.6%
Football, 65,091,979 -- 15.4%
Basketball, 64,926,138 --15.4%
Hockey, 60,512,547 -- 14.3%
Horse Racing, 40,225,535 -- 9.5%
Auto Racing, 25,623,925 -- 6.1% (Worldwide, auto racing claims to be #2 behind soccer.)
Dog Racing, 12,348,147 -- 2.9%
Golf, 12,223,496 -- 2.9%
Soccer, 8,993,216 -- 2.1%
Tennis, 3,413,458 -- 0.8%
The next two were rodeo and jai alai. (! )
Curling is #20. (Did I mention this poll includes Canada?)
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