Surprising ranking. According to the website The Sport Examiner, the American swimming trials for the Paris 2024 Olympics were, among the three major individual Olympic sports, the most followed by the public, ahead of those in gymnastics and athletics. In Indianapolis, the American Swimming Federation's choice to install a temporary swimming pool in an NFL stadium paid off. The trials attracted a total of 285.202 people, an average of 16.777 spectators per session. In second place of the trio, gymnastics. Over four evenings, the trials for the Olympics brought together 57.891 people at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, an average of 14.473 people per session. Two of the four evenings, those devoted to the women's events, were sold out. Finally, athletics has experienced Olympics trials better than for the Tokyo 2020 Games at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, but less crowded than the 2016 edition in the old version of the stadium. In total, the eight days of competition brought together 95.411 paying spectators, for a daily average of 11.926 people.
