Takagi won a second silver, after her first in the 1500-meter event. February 13 ■ Silver Takagi Miho (Speed skating: Women’s 500-meter) ■ Bronze Murase Kokomo (Snowboarding: Women’s big air)Īt 17 years old, Murase became Japan’s youngest ever female Winter Olympic medalist. The same lineup of Takagi Miho, Takagi Nana, and Satō Ayano that won the gold medal in Pyeongyang in 2018 came second behind Canada this time. ■ Silver Japan national team (Speed skating: Women’s team pursuit) February 15 ■ Bronze Watabe Akito (Nordic combined: Large hill individual)Īfter winning silver medals in the previous two Olympics, Watabe had to settle for bronze in Beijing.
This brings her total at Beijing 2022 to four medals, and her overall total to seven, including those won at Pyeongchang in 2018. Takagi won her first individual gold of the games, competing in her seventh race in five events. ■ Gold Takagi Miho (Speed skating: Women’s 1000-meter) The team finished fourth in both the ski jumping and cross-country sections, but third overall, winning its first medal in the event since it took gold in 1994. ■ Bronze Japan national team (Nordic combined: Large hill team) February 17 ■ Bronze Sakamoto Kaori (Figure skating: Women’s singles)Ĭompeting against a strong Russian trio, Sakamoto managed to secure bronze with a well-rounded performance. Japan’s women’s curling team Loco Solare improved on its third-place finish in Pyeongchang in 2018, but lost out to Britain 10-3 in the final. Only last year's Summer Games in Tokyo performed better with 5.6 billion minutes of viewing time on the same outlets, The Hollywood Reporter stated.■ = Gold ■ = Silver ■ = Bronze February 20 ■ Silver Japan national team (Curling: Women’s) People tuned in to watch 4.3 billion minutes of the various events across the network's digital and social media channels over 18 days. Still, the executive touted the company's success on online platforms, noting the Beijing events were the most streamed Winter Games ever. "They were made whole throughout the entire Olympics," he said. It is unclear whether the network turned a profit this time or lost money on the Beijing Games.īut Bevacqua said advertisers were given additional commercial time to make up for the absence of eyeballs. NBC is forking over approximately $1.3 billion every two years through 2032 to broadcast the summer and winter Olympics in the U.S.
and China, controversies regarding the host country's human rights record, as well as a general lower level of interest in the sports that make up the Winter Games. This year's lackluster numbers are also likely due to the significant time difference between the U.S. "We had 1,600 people in Stamford and 600 people in Beijing," Bevacqua said, referring to the size of the network's crew in Connecticut. They included the lack of crowds because of the pandemic and "very harsh protocols in China" that kept family and friends out of the stands and limited the size of the network's coverage teams in Beijing.
Several factors contributed to the audience's waning interest, he said. "This was probably the most difficult Olympics of all time," NBC Sports Chairman Pete Bevacqua told The Wall Street Journal. That is a sharp decline from the 19.8 million average for the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, which at the time was the least-watched Olympics in history, having dropped 1.5 million viewers from the Sochi Olympics. The reports indicate there was an average total audience of 11.4 million viewers for the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
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If there were medals for viewership, the year's Olympics wouldn't get anywhere near the podium.įigures released Monday show NBC's Winter Olympics coverage in China drew the smallest TV audience in its history, dropping more than 40% since the last Winter Games. That is a sharp decline from the 19.8 million average for the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Reports released Monday indicate there was an average total audience of 11.4 million viewers for the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
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