Comm Games vs World Cup. Who won?

Hailed as the best ever Commonwealth Games, Glasgow 2014 celebrates the end of a memorable 20th edition with a colourful closing ceremony on Sunday. Sarah Toms reports.

Surprisingly, you wanted to know more about Michael than Tim. Source: NewsComAu

IT'S been a busy old year for major sporting events.

We started with the Winter Olympics in February, there was the World Cup in June and July, and as you know, we've just had the Commonwealth Games.

So which event were you, our readers, most interested in?

We thought there'd be two meaningful ways to measure that. Firstly, the average daily readers. And secondly, the top-rating story for each event. (We didn't take overall numbers for each event into consideration because they all went for a different length of time.)

Anyway, drumroll… the event that you, the readers of Australia's Number One news site liked best?

The Commonwealth Games.

You couldn't get enough. You're probably even having haggis for dinner tonight, right? AFP PHOTO / ANDY BUCHANAN Source: AFP

Around 196,000 of you logged on to news.com.au each day during the Games to read about Glasgow goings-on, while just 174,000 of you regularly tuned into the football festivities in Brazil. Not-so-snowy Sochi was a distant third with 120,000 readers per day.

The message is clear. Most Australians still believe that the Commonwealth Games are a relevant part of our quadrennial sporting scene, a stance many of you made clear in the comments section of our piece yesterday.

And the biggest story of the Games? No, it wasn't Sally Pearson's gold medal or anything in the pool. It was a moment of awkwardness rather than athletic awesomeness.

Give up? It was Thorpie's awkward interview with James Magnussen, Please Lord never again.

For the record, the biggest story during the Winter Olympics was the spat over athlete funding that helped derail "Chumpy" Pullin's gold medal tilt.

Yeah, Australia kinda felt that way too, Chumpy. (AAP Image/Paul Miller) Source: Supplied

And the biggest World Cup story? Wait for it… a Chilean journalist flashing her breasts to celebrate a goal.

Interestingly, the highest-rating sport story during the World Cup period was not a football story, but a story from another code of football. We speak of former NRL star Todd Carney's bathroom adventures which were literally, in terms of reader numbers, bigger than Brazil.