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r/olympics is a safe-for-work community on Reddit, ranked #639 on SubMouse with 1,664,460 subscribers and about 6.2 new posts a day.

Rank (SFW)#639
Subscribers1.7M
Growth since Nov 2+325
Posts per day6.2
Posts all time106.7K
CreatedFeb 2006
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About r/olympics

In its own words:

The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, the Milano Cortina Winter Games, and beyond

Community guide

r/olympics (#639, about 1.7 million subscribers) — The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, the Milano Cortina Winter Games, and beyond A recent sample averaged 6.2 posts a day (~35% text, ~27% link, ~15% image). Its public rules include: Every post must contribute to the discussion of the Olympics; No Redditquette Violations; No Politics; No Brigading; No Superfluous or Duplicate Posts.

What belongs here

Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent fandoms or general off-topic dumps. Low-effort memes or empty shitposts are commonly removed—add context that fits the room’s purpose.

How it differs from lookalikes

The length of the public rule list is itself a signal: skim all of them once before assuming defaults from similar communities.

Practical pointers

Read the current sidebar/rules on Reddit before posting; rules can change. Search the sub before reposting common clips or questions. Common flairs include: Shooting, Rowing.

The community was created on Feb 19, 2006, which makes it 20 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 325 subscribers (+0.02%). It sits just behind r/Nike (#638) and ahead of r/lakers (#640) in our ranking.

What sets r/olympics apart

It is a discussion-heavy community, with about 27.2 comments per post over its lifetime versus a Top 100 median of 13.0.

Subscriber growth

1.66M1.66MSep 19Nov 9, 2026

Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/olympics climbed from 1,662,972 to 1,664,460 subscribers (+1.5K, +0.09%). That is about 29 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.

Top posts on r/olympics this week

The most upvoted posts of the past seven days, in the order Reddit ranks them (collected Nov 7, 2026).

  1. Irish Olympian and European champion Ciara Mageean diesu/John_OSheas_Willy · Nov 1 · link
  2. The contenders for 2036 Olympics are in! Who will win?u/TheSportsgramIndia · Nov 2 · image
  3. A double Paralympic gold medalist, Josh Turek, has been elected to the US Senateu/IvyGold · Nov 6 · link
  4. Funeral held for Ciara Mageean who married weeks before bowel cancer deathu/TheTelegraph · Nov 4 · link
  5. Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games opened in historic first for Africau/ChristianKlaue · Oct 31 · gallery
  6. LA has a new mayor; here's an article on her from just before the election: If elected, Nithya Raman could shake up the LA Olympics. Here’s howu/IvyGold · Nov 5 · link
  7. Seven Interested Parties for the 2036 Olympic Games confirmedu/ChristianKlaue · Nov 2 · image
  8. The Refugee Olympic Team has arrived at Dakar 2026 and starts strongu/ChristianKlaue · Nov 1 · video
  9. Can anyone identify/help value this Puma Grenada Olympic jacket? Rio 2016?u/Think-Investment-735 · Nov 5 · gallery
  10. TIL that Englishman Philip Noel-Baker is the only person to have won both an Olympic medal (1920) and a Nobel Prize medal (1959)u/IvyGold · Nov 4 · link

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/olympics, from 2024 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.

  1. The burnout is realu/Cavalier26 · Sep 3, 2024 · image
  2. Alysa Liu jumps for joy on the podium (photo by Matthew Stockman for Getty)u/Gayfetus · Feb 20, 2026 · image
  3. God bless the Dutch for thisu/cbbvideo · Feb 17, 2026 · image
  4. New angle comes out for what caused Ilia’s fallu/Madeyoublockme · Feb 14, 2026 · image
  5. This moment is priceless 🥇u/BobbyABooey · Feb 16, 2026 · image
  6. Team USA wins GOLD in Men's Ice Hockey for the First Time since 1980u/Due-Impression8466 · Feb 22, 2026 · image
  7. Zhou Yaqin reaction on the podium was pricelessu/faithNiiel · Aug 5, 2024 · video
  8. Team Earth actually 1st by far. So proudu/DivideByZero1989 · Aug 14, 2024 · image
  9. Simone Biles posing with her 11 Olympic medalsu/cmaia1503 · Aug 28, 2024 · gallery
  10. So, who won the Memelympics 2024?u/DarthZiggy98 · Aug 11, 2024 · image

What r/olympics talks about

Looking at the titles of 55 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “youth”, “summer”, “olympic”, “dakar” and “megathread”. Other frequent themes are medal, sports, table, november, ioc and ciara. Recurring phrases include “summer youth”, “medal table”, “ciara mageean” and “olympic games”. By format, 35% are text posts, 27% are links and 15% are images.

  • youth 17
  • summer 12
  • olympic 11
  • dakar 10
  • megathread 7
  • medal 6
  • sports 6
  • table 4
  • november 4
  • ioc 4
  • ciara 3
  • mageean 3
  • africa 3
  • games 3
  • opening 3
  • ceremony 3
  • sport 2
  • death 2

Popular post flairs: Shooting (2), Rowing (1).

Activity and best time to post

r/olympics gets about 6.2 new posts a day. The public archive holds 106,694 posts and 2,907,220 comments in total, about 27.2 comments per post.

Text posts 35%Links 27%Images 15%Galleries 15%Videos 9%

Rules of r/olympics

The moderators of r/olympics list 10 rules. In short:

  1. Every post must contribute to the discussion of the Olympics
  2. No Redditquette Violations
  3. No Politics
  4. No Brigading
  5. No Superfluous or Duplicate Posts
  6. No Memes, no ChatGPT, and no Low-Effort Posts
  7. No Nudity or Overt Sexualization
  8. No Posts about Television Coverage
  9. No Posts about how the Medal Tally is Sorted
  10. No Use of Redact or Mass Deletion Apps

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/olympics and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.

Frequently asked questions

How many subscribers does r/olympics have?

r/olympics has 1,664,460 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #639 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 1,488 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.

How old is r/olympics?

r/olympics was created on Feb 19, 2006, so it has been around for 20 years.

How active is r/olympics?

Moderately: r/olympics gets about 6.2 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 106,694 posts and 2,907,220 comments. In a sample of 55 recent posts we counted 29 different authors.

What is r/olympics about?

The community describes itself as: “The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, the Milano Cortina Winter Games, and beyond” Recent post titles often mention youth, summer, olympic, dakar and megathread. Most posts are text posts (35%).

Is r/olympics safe for work?

Yes. Reddit does not mark r/olympics as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.

How do I post on r/olympics?

Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/olympics accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 10 posted rules, starting with: “Every post must contribute to the discussion of the Olympics”; “No Redditquette Violations”; “No Politics”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.

Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/olympics.

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