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) is oriented around: The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, the Milano Cortina Winter Games, and beyond Recent activity samples show 6.2 posts/day in recent samples (~35% text, ~27% link, ~15% image). Public rules we collected 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; collected rules can lag. Search the sub before reposting common clips or questions. Common flairs in samples include: Shooting, Rowing.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Feb 19, 2006, which makes it 20 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 136 subscribers (+0.01%). It sits just behind r/geography (#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 13.1.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/olympics climbed from 1,662,972 to 1,664,135 subscribers (+1.2K, +0.07%). That is about 26 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
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.
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.
Rules of r/olympics
The moderators of r/olympics list 10 rules. In short:
- Every post must contribute to the discussion of the Olympics
- No Redditquette Violations
- No Politics
- No Brigading
- No Superfluous or Duplicate Posts
- No Memes, no ChatGPT, and no Low-Effort Posts
- No Nudity or Overt Sexualization
- No Posts about Television Coverage
- No Posts about how the Medal Tally is Sorted
- 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 1,664,135 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #639 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 1,163 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 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.
Which communities are like r/olympics?
Communities with similar topics include r/gameofthrones (4M), r/DestinyTheGame (3.4M), r/boardgames (5.5M), r/chess (1.9M) and r/lgbt (1.3M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). 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.