Group USA Hockey
Gold Medal Win Breaks Report
… Averaged 20.7 Million Viewers!!!
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A TON of American followers set their alarms to catch the Purple, White and Blue’s gold medal win … with NBC asserting the 2026 Winter Olympics finale averaged 20.7 million viewers!!
The oldsters over on the Peacock launched the numbers for the competition on Tuesday … saying the sport was the most-watched pre-9 AM ET sporting occasion in U.S. historical past.
JACK HUGHES DELIVERS AMERICA’S GOLDEN MOMENT IN OVERTIME. pic.twitter.com/4foFDOri53
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The viewers solely grew as soon as the showdown reached extra time — with the community saying “An astounding common of 26.0 million viewers on NBC and Peacock had been watching between 10:45-11 AM ET” as Jack Hughes scored the game-winning aim … which ended a 46-year gold medal drought for the boys’s group.
Just one sport nonetheless stands because the community’s most-watched hockey sport ever … with the 2010 Vancouver Olympic showdown between the U.S. and Canada’s males’s groups holding the highest spot — so Hughes and Co. should accept silver on that one.
On the ladies’s facet, it was introduced beforehand that the USA’s showdown towards Canada within the gold medal contest drew a mean of 5.3 million viewers. Like the boys’s sport … these numbers fell simply wanting the 2010 Vancouver Olympic finale between ‘Merica and the neighbors up north — which averaged 7.5 million viewers.
So … run it again in 2030??