It might be easy to generalize misogyny across populations of Spain and France. A stronger factor must be at play, however. ESP women's basketball team had among the best-attended matches in Lille (12 teams, prelim group phase, Jul 29 - Aug 4): - vs CHN, 27021 - vs PUR, 23942 - vs SRB, 26595 somewhat better than what the local national team had in the same venue: - vs CAN, 20211 - vs NGA, 17483 - vs AUS, 27193 After those Lille figures, FIBA predicted Olympic total attendance records would be broken, for both men's and women's tourneys: Aug 5, 2024 Thank you Lille, now Paris, it's up to you A total of 876,686 spectators showed up for the 36 men's and women's game at the converted football arena in Lille - that is 91.8 percent of capacity. A total of 466,053 fans showed up for the 18 men's games for an average of 25,983 or 94.6 percent of the 27,360 capacity. The 18 women's games drew 410,633 fans for an average of 22,813 or 83.4 percent of capacity. Then, all men's and women's attendance dropped below 12.5K when teams moved to Paris (8 teams, knockout phase, Aug 7 -11). So, what happened to all those fans at Lille? Is Paris too expensive? Did fans found a more efficient way to use their vacation time/funds, switching to other Olympic events / summer activities?