Largest Sports Events

The Most Legitimate The competition is not yet thirty, but Bernard Lapasset, president of World Rugby, goes without complex: "The Rugby World Cup is the third world sporting event." Which plays in his favor World Rugby has good arguments. With a broadcast in 207 countries around the world, the Rugby World Cup is not far from the Olympics and its big sister of football. Better yet, a study of the Global Sport Impact project , based on 700 sporting events of the last twelve years, ranks the 2011 Rugby World Cup fourth biggest sporting event in the world, behind the 2012 Olympic Games, the World Cup football 2014 and ... the 2012 Paralympic Games. The number of spectators also supports the comparison. Two million tickets had already been sold for the 2015 edition out of the 2.3 million available. What's missing Rugby suffers mainly from its lack of universality. If we find 102 countries in World Rugby, the sport is practiced at high level by only twenty nations. T...

Most broadcast  The French treble in ski-cross at the Sochi Olympics. REUTERS / Mike Blake. Every four years, we seek the chills by saying that cross-country skiing and curling interest both Norwegians and Senegalese. The event WHAT`S NEW IN PSL 2018 AND NEW PLAYERS IN PESHAWAR ZALMI 2018 , which will celebrate its hundred years of existence in 2024, does not cause as many passions as its big brother summer. Which plays in his favor Side broadcast, no differences between seasons. In both winter and summer, the Olympics are broadcast in 220 countries around the world. 412 TV channels broadcast the event in 2014 in Sochi, compared to 506 for the Summer Games in 2012. This allowed 2.1 billion viewers to watch at least a minute of the event , opening ceremony understood. On this side, the winter competition is placed warm on the third step of the podium in front of other sporting events. What's missing Diversity. In Sochi, in 2014, only 85 nationalities were represented, a...

 Australia's victory in the final of the 2014 Cricket World Cup. In France, cricket is 1,200 licensed. That does not change the case: the Cricket World Cup is one of the most popular events in the world. It meets every four years - the same year as the Rugby World Cup - between eight and sixteen of the best national teams. In 2015, it was held in Australia and New Zealand. Which plays in his favor Cricket is played in few countries but by many people. It is the number one sport in India, with 1.3 billion people, and Pakistan, which has 188 million. 2.5 billion viewers were expected for the 2015 edition. Between 1 and 1.5 billion people followed the meeting between India and Pakistan. A hallucinating figure. Even if the extreme length of the games partly explains this score, it is worth to the Cricket World Cup to be simply the single most watched sporting event simultaneously. He is able to gather about 20% of humanity in front of his post. What's missing Cricket r...

The most expensive Bigger, more show, more expensive. That could be the motto of the Super Bowl. Since 1967, the final between the two best football teams in the United States is part of the planetary events of the year Psl schedule and teams 2018 . His half-time concert and unpublished commercials make the Super Bowl an absolute and global show. His images invariably go around the world. You can access it even if you do not really know the difference between the Patriots and the Seahawks. Which plays in his favor 4 million The cost in euros of a 30-second commercial during the Super Bowl The Super Bowl is the most profitable sporting event in the world , thanks to its famous commercials during stoppages. A 30-second commercial spot costs 4 million euros . No wonder, under these conditions, that the broadcasting rights of the NFL championship are the most expensive in the world: 2.78 billion euros per year (3.1 billion dollars). In comparison, the Eurosport channel spent 1.3...

The most unique Ask a Western football fan where he was on June 6, 2015, and he will find you without any worry the bar or the sofa in which he was to watch the final of the Champions League. The competition, which spans a season and opposes the best clubs of the European championships, is the annual summit of international football outside the years of the World Cup. Which plays in his favor Barcelona, ​​winner of the 2015 Champions League. REUTERS / Darren Staples The final of the competition is the most watched annual event in the world. They were 180 million in front of their TV to see the victory of FC Barcelona against Juventus Turin (3-1), mainly in Europe since that is where the 77 clubs from 54 countries come from. The penetration of competition on other continents is far from anecdotal. Among the teams qualified in the semi-finals in 2015, there were players of 24 different nationalities, half of which were not European, including international stars such as Argent...

football Euro In 2016, the European football championship, which will take place in France, will take a little more scale. 24 teams will participate in the finals for the first time. This is a small evolution for the event created in 1960 with four nations, but it could challenge what makes it strong: its competitiveness. New players in PSL 2018 Which plays in his favor The Euro is sometimes considered the most important international football competition in the world. "There is one less game to win but it's harder to win a Euro, because it's harder to get out of the hens than during the World Cup," said Laurent Blanc, coach of the team. France in 2012 . Winning a European Championship is tricky. There is the gratin of European football, which is currently not far from the gratin of world football. " This" gratin "of football allows the competition to attract fans from around the world. For Euro 2016, the organizers estimate that 45% of the dem...