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February 15, 2014 05:00 am GMT

Facebook Data Map Reveals Global Olympics Buzz

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Friday is the one-week mark for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. That's enough time to get a pretty interesting snapshot of how the world is discussing the games — online, at least

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This Facebook map shows which sport has been the most popular on the social networking behemoth in each country from Feb. 6 through Feb. 13. The takeaway? People love figure skating!

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This map is based on the same data, but zooms in on Europe. People love biathlon!

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Facebook tells us that more than 24 million people discussed the Olympics on Facebook during the games' first week, creating a total of 48 million posts, comments and Likes Read more...

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