# What sport would you cut from the Summer Olympics? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 12, 2013, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sport-would-you-cut-from-the-summer-olympics/650114 "2013-02-12T20:32:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 113
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sport-would-you-cut-from-the-summer-olympics/650114/113 "2013-03-02T23:05:47Z")
To contextualize my earlier remarks on the global popularity of baseball, and the event ([now under way!](http://web.worldbaseballclassic.com/wbc/2013/scoreboard/index.jsp)) disparaged as, > [@Knorf](#): > > …a tournament that no one pays attention to… As I said elsewhere, > [@Wrestling cut from 2020 Olympics!!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrestling-cut-from-2020-olympics/650079/96): > > _American_ interest may be mediocre, considering how great it actually is, but Americans are not the only baseball fans. Asian and Latin interest has been pretty strong. It turns out the championship game of the last iteration of the World Baseball Classic, in 2009, was actually the sixth-most-watched sporting event of the year, _planetwide_. The ‘09 WBC final was watched by more people than any American football game short of the Super Bowl, and by more than any basketball or hockey game that year, bar none. (Also, more people than saw any single game of the 2009 MLB World Series featuring the vaunted New York Yankees.) The WBC final was more-seen than any soccer game that year apart from the Champions League title match (which led all sporting events for global audience), any tennis game apart from the Wimbledon mens’ singles final, and any cricket or golf event whatever. Not too damn bad for its second occurrence! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sport-would-you-cut-from-the-summer-olympics/650114)._