Olympic Ratings 2022 : Beijing Games Ignored : Why Are Americans Ignoring the Winter Olympics? The opening games for the 2022 Beijing Olympics drew a fraction of the audience from the previous games. Furthermore, the previous games had already hit record low audience volume numbers.
Americans have tuned out from the Olympics in a big way this year as many resent China’s authoritarian regime that has more than 1 million Muslim citizens locked in work camps.
In fact, this article alone will likely get this organization shadow banned or completely banned in China. A Dutch news crew was manhandled on live television by state security.
In fact the freedom of speech areas that were present at China’s previous 2008 Olympic Games has been brought down to 0 free speech areas. Now the entire event is being monitored by the state.
Is this representative of an overall societal change towards the Olympics or is this about Americans angry with China and ie purely political?
In conclusion, could we be seeing the beginning of the end of the Olympic Games? Moreover, this won’t happen all at once. But could this be the start of a multi decade end to the largest sporting games?
