AGA: 20.1m Americans to bet on Tokyo Olympics
Basketball to be the most bet on sport.
With the belated 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games to begin this week, the American Gaming Association (AGA) has compiled a number of statistics indicating that interest in the event among American bettors is high.
AGA has stated that 54% of Americans are interested in the Olympic Games and 20.1m, or 8% of the nation’s adult population, plan to wager on the global sporting event.
Of the Americans who plan to place bets, basketball is the most popular, with 45% of bettors planning to wager on a game. Soccer follows closely behind at 34%, and gymnastics at 28%. Track and field and swimming both sit at 27%.
Betting is most popular among casual players. According to the AGA, 47% of those who plan to wager will do so casually with friends, and 43% of bets will be placed online, while only 16% of people plan to visit a physical sportsbook. Furthermore, 13% of those who said they would wager on the Olympics say they will visit a bookie.
In addition, 10% of Americans who don’t currently live in a state with a legal and regulated sports betting market said they would be interested in wagering should their states legalize the activity.
AGA collected this data from July 9-12, 2021 among a sample size of 2,200 adults.
On how the data was collected, AGA said: “The interviews were conducted online and the data were weighted to approximate a target sample of adults based on gender, educational attainment, age, race and region. Results from the full survey have a margin of error of +/- 2%.”
Since 2018, when legal sports betting was only available in Nevada, 21 new states, as well as Washington, DC, have launched regulated betting markets.
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