People in France showed unprecedented enthusiasm for the ongoing Beijing Olympics and an average 1.4 million people watch the Games on TV every day, according to a local survey released on Thursday.

Audience rating reached 25.3 percent on average for the TV channels France 2 and France 3 from August 9, the first day of the Olympic competitions, to Wednesday, French State TV quoted a media survey as saying.

Men's sabre team final on Sunday, in which France defeated the United States to retain its Olympic gold, attracted 4.3 million French audience, pushing the single day audience rating up to 34 percent.

Meanwhile, visits to the Olympic contents on the French State TV channels' websites also topped 3.5 million and a daily average of 200,000 people watch live broadcasting of the events via the internet.

(Xinhua News Agency August 22, 2008)