Sports

Across 33 countries people see the event as having a positive unifying effect and inspiring future generations

Public interest in the Winter Olympics varies widely across between the 28 countries surveyed, with host China showing highest anticipation and figure skating in gold medal position as the most popular sport.

A new global Ipsos study conducted with the World Economic Forum explores attitudes to sports and finds that globally most (58%) would like to practice more but say they lack of time to do so (37%).

Six in ten (62%) say the event marks an important opportunity for the world to come together after the Covid-19 pandemic

More than half of the global population would rather exercise more and/or eat more healthily, but not diet as the actions they would take when trying to lose weight. But from a dietary perspective, sugar is seen as the main component that people would look to reduce or eliminate to help with weight loss.

Experts say women are more prone to emotional eating due to various psychological factors.

Under exercising, anxiety, overeating top the list with women more likely to say they are impacted.

Three in five people across 29 countries say eating well is more important than being thin.

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