2024 Women's Olympic Tournament

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For Brazil vs Japan they have only the Tanikawa goal

 

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If you use Tunnelbear, you can log in to any Euro server and access Eurosport.

 

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It definitely was THE highlight of the game (and one of the highlights of the women's tournament in general) but they could have made an effort to show something more.

They're lucky that I at least watched the game live.

 

QFs are now set. One side of the bracket has the somehow-surviving defending OG champs as well as seven WWC titles; the other side of the bracket has the current defending WWC title, the OG host, and both CONMEBOL teams.

 

I did not know payouts for medals officially happen but the amounts seem fairly high.
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Here’s how much athletes at the Paris Olympics earn for winning medals
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/31/her...e-paris-olympics-earn-for-winning-medals.html

 

I wanted to rewatch the stunning FK by Kitagawa, but this time Japan-Nigeria's highlights are not even on Eurosport.

 

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Does anyone else hate the French TV production of the women's soccer games?

1) Stop with the cut aways from action, just to torture us with close ups of screaming dorks in the stands

2) I cannot hear a word Foudy or Champion is saying most of the time. This was not an issue in swimming or any other sport I watched. ATTN audio engineers: turn down the crowd noise, turn up the announcers!

They have really made watching the matches a chore.

 

I think camera availability is on the IOC, as excessive crowd shots seems to be a constant across most soccer broadcasts regardless of nationality.

 

Attendances (group phase):

BRA v JPN - 40,918 (85.3%)
FRA v COL - 29,208 (49.3%)
NZL v FRA - 21,946 (37.1%)
FRA v CAN - 17,550 (41.8%)
BRA v ESP - 14,497 (34.4%)
AUS v USA - 13,036 (19.3%)
USA v GER - 12,845 (19.1%)
ESP v NGA - 11,079 (31.3%)
ESP v JPN - 10,377 (29.4%)
GER v AUS - 9,731 (14.4%)
JPN v NGR - 6,480 (18.3%)
NGR v BRA - 6,244 (14.8%)
USA v ZAM - 5,550 (15.2%)
COL v CAN - 5,388 (14.9%)
NZL v COL - 5,212 (8.8%)
AUS v ZAM - 4,441 (12.3%)
CAN v NZL - 2,674 (6.4%)
ZAM v GER - 2,642 (6.3%)

very very low numbers...

Attendances (QF.. so far):

USA v JPN - 43,004 (89.7%)
ESP v COL - 10,355 (17,5%)

 

wow, the esp col qtrfinal is so low. I know the Spanish don't really travel but it's just one country over...

 

How does this compare to attendances for women's football generally in France?

It's nowhere near so much of a crock as the men's tournament, but a 12 team tournament with 2 of the 3 third place finishers doesn't exactly scream competititve group stage. Nor does the distribution of the 12 places amongst confederations, which ends up excluding some of the best teams in the world.

 

France's club games are woefully attended, at least compared to the big three attendance leaders of USA/ENG/MEX, with an average attendance of about 1000 last season among reported attendances, with the highest attended games (Lyon-PSG) accounting for 21k of the reported 141k season total. A better point of comparison might be the 2019 World Cup, which also had 2/3rds of 3rd place teams advancing, though to be fair there, the World Cup is a purely football-focused event, while the Olympics have attention spread of dozens of sports.

For the record, the 2019 WC group stage saw about half of the games with less than 15k attendance, but none below 8k.

 

Attendances (QF.. so far):

USA v JPN - 43,004 (89.7%)
ESP v COL - 10,355 (17.5%)
CAN v GER - 12,517 (18.6%)

Both matches played in Paris - where most of the Olympics takes place were well attended.
Other cites probably saved on advertising campaign thus the low att result.
Very low attendances across past few years in women's D1 league didn't help either...

 

Out of the four semifinals, the USA looked the worst. Spain picked up their pace in the second half and came back in PKs. Can't say any of the four are favorites, but Brazil didn't need extra time against a strong France team. So I'd pick a Brazil-Germany gold Medal match.

 

For your sake don't put money on this prediction.

 

if they were the best teams they’d be in the competition. As it turned out, they weren’t even best in their confederations.

 

Six of the twelve top ranked teams are from Europe, which gets three places at the Olympics. Ten of the sixteen top ranked teams are European, and there are four teams ranked lower than that in the competition. Some will claim that the places should be distributed the way they are, but that doesn't change my point, namely that due to the size of the competition and the distribution of places, many of the world's best teams end up being excluded.

 

You're going to get some version of that argument no matter how large your tournament is unless you want to really skew the confederation distribution. Just depends on where your arbitrary definition of "top teams" is. Like, why sixteen? Most people usually just focus on the top ten, and there's usually only five to eight real contractors, maybe extending down to twelve if you wanna count dark horses. Seven of the top ten made it this year, and I think that's more than enough to be interesting and competitive and not watered down

 

Yeah, not encouraging, the average attendance for 1996 Women's Olympics was 43k, and the lowest attendance was 17k for the Denmark v Sweden match at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando.

That was their third group game, and both teams were on zero points and couldn't advance.

And that was the first Women's Olympic tournament...

At least attendance in Paris looks good, so what went wrong in the other cities...travel from Paris too difficult for Olympic visitors? Or just no locals attending?