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Citius, Altius, Fortius. The Games of the XXXIV Olympiad and everything before and beyond. Founded 2006 · 1.7M members

1.7M members. The best post we have captured here reached 123.6K upvotes, which works out to 74 per 1,000 members.

74peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.7Mmembers
123.6Kbest post
6.3Kmost comments
501posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

29% 25% 16% 16% 8%
Link 29% Image 25% Question 16% Text 16% Video 8% Gallery 6%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Hockey 19 ❄ Milano-Cortina 2026 (General Discussion) ❄ 15 ❄ Milano-Cortina 2026 (Video) ❄ 5 BeachVolleyball 5 ❄ Milano-Cortina 2026 (Official Result) ❄ 4 Football 4 Badminton 4 Judo 4 Rowing 3 Boxing 3

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

The burnout is real

↑ 123.6K 💬 1.2K image 2024

Alysa Liu jumps for joy on the podium (photo by Matthew Stockman for Getty)

↑ 94K 💬 1.1K image 2026

God bless the Dutch for this

↑ 67.5K 💬 739 image 2026

New angle comes out for what caused Ilia’s fall

↑ 62.4K 💬 606 image 2026

This moment is priceless 🥇

↑ 59.9K 💬 323 image 2026

Team USA wins GOLD in Men's Ice Hockey for the First Time since 1980

↑ 57.6K 💬 4.7K image 2026

Zhou Yaqin reaction on the podium was priceless

↑ 55.2K 💬 780 video 2024

Team Earth actually 1st by far. So proud

↑ 54.5K 💬 1.3K image 2024

Simone Biles posing with her 11 Olympic medals

↑ 53.3K 💬 912 gallery 2024

So, who won the Memelympics 2024?

↑ 49.1K 💬 4.4K image 2024

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/olympics, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/olympics?
r/olympics ("Citius, Altius, Fortius") describes itself this way: The Games of the XXXIV Olympiad and everything before and beyond. It was founded in 2006 and has 1.7M members.
How many members does r/olympics have?
r/olympics has about 1.7M members. ViralHunt has tracked 501 of its posts; the biggest reached 123.6K upvotes, which is 74 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/olympics?
"The burnout is real" reached 123.6K upvotes and 1.2K comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/olympics.
What subreddits are similar to r/olympics?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/alberta, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/minnesota, r/Amazing.
What kind of posts do best on r/olympics?
Of the posts we hold, 29% are link posts and 25% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/olympics?
Across 501 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 15:00 UTC (32.9K avg upvotes), Monday at 19:00 UTC (22.2K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 01:00 UTC (21.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/olympics?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/olympics has 34.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 65 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/olympics, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.