Team USA's nearest audiences are a dense cluster of sports journalists, TV personalities, and sports media brands — with no single neighbor pulling far ahead of the rest.
The shape is flat: scores run from 0.89 at the top down to 0.85 at position 10, a narrow 0.04-point band with no dominant outlier. NBC Olympics leads at 0.89, followed closely by Olympics at 0.87 and Michael Phelps at 0.87 — the only three neighbors that could be called Olympics-adjacent. From there, the cluster shifts decisively into sports media: Ryen Russillo (0.86), Field Yates (0.86), Kenny Mayne (0.86), Adam Schefter (0.85), and Tom Pelissero (0.85) are all TV personalities or journalists. Gov. Gary Johnson (0.86) is the one politician in the top 10, a cross-kind outlier with no obvious thematic link to the others. Seth Davis (0.85) rounds out the set as another sports journalist.
Tallying the top 10 by subcategory: four are Journalists, two are TV Personalities, one is an Athlete, one is a Sports League, one is a Sports Team, and one is a Politician. No other Sports Teams subcategory appears in the top 10 beyond the Olympics entry. The dominant pattern is sports media figures — reporters and on-air personalities — rather than fellow teams or Olympic organizations, which makes the NBC Olympics lead feel less like a thematic anchor and more like a shared audience demographic that also follows sports coverage broadly.
The flat shape suggests Team USA's audience is defined less by a single gravitational pull than by a consistent sports-media-following profile that spreads evenly across journalists, broadcasters, and a handful of adjacent entities.