Majority of Russians (70%) are confident in success of Russian team at Olympic Games in Turin. This was supported by poll conducted by All-Russian center of public opinion investigation.
By results of poll, half of respondents (51%) suppose that Russia will take second or third team place by amount of medals, and every 5-th is sure that Russia will top the list.
At the same moment 11% of Russians skeptically estimate chances of our team for victory and consider that it will not be among leaders by team score.
In opinion of Russians there are high chances for gold medals among figure-skaters, skiers, biathlon-skiers and hockey players.
It should be mentioned that 67% of Russians intend to watch TV broadcasts of Olympic Games in Turin. Among them 28% will watch all kinds of sports regularly, 32% - will watch only favorite kinds of sports, 7% - only those sports, where Russia has chances for victory.
At the same moment every 5-th will not follow the course of Olympiad and 7% haven`t heard about it.
The majority of spectators intend to watch performances of figure-skaters (57%), about one third (34-37%) - competitions of skiers, biathlon-skiers and hockey. Other kinds of sports arouse interest of about 6% of questioned.
It is curious that majority of men are attracted by hockey (54%), biathlon (41%), ski races (39%) and then figure skating (35%). Rating of female sport preferences tops figure skating (78%), then women are interested in ski races (35%), biathlon (27%) and hockey (17%).
All-Russian poll was conducted on January 14-15 of 2006. 1564 people from 153 settlements of 46 oblasts, republics were questioned. Statistic error doesn`t exceed 3.4%.
XX winter Olympiad in Turin will be held on February 10-26 of 2006.
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