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USA Today Sports Media Group
USA Today Sports Media Group
Sport
Charles Curtis

Ranking the new and returning Olympic events by watchability

We’re all familiar with many of the standard sports we’ll see in the Tokyo Olympics — which officially began this week — like athletics (like track and field), gymnastics, swimming, judo and so on.

And while you’ll familiarize yourself with some of the new and returning events coming to this Summer Games soon enough, we decided it would be a good idea to rank them by watchability before we see them, which might motivate you to tune in to watch some of them.

We’ve got the complete of new/returning sports and events listed here, but let’s rank them now by some unscientific combination of how much we want to watch them:

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