Nielsen numbers for Winter Olympics opening ceremonies.

Last week's Nielsen ratings came out.  Based on that, I thought I'd throw this little chart together to see how many Americans watched the Sochi Olympics opening ceremonies, relative to the past several Winter Olympics.  Turns out, Sochi is smack dab in the middle...not as disinterested as Turin, but nowhere as popular as SLC, for obvious reasons.  I would have thought that Vancouver would be higher, given its proximity and popularity with Americans, but it wasn't.

Site	Viewers	US pop	% view/pop
2006 Turin	22,200,000	297,220,000	7.47%
1992 Albertville	23,999,000	255,030,000	9.41%
1998 Nagano	27,185,250	274,580,000	9.90%
2014 Sochi	31,690,000	317,520,000	9.98%
2010 Vancouver	32,600,000	308,380,000	10.57%
1994 Lillehammer	33,835,000	261,810,000	12.92%
2002 Salt Lake	45,604,000	286,540,000	15.92%