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In response to "Gymnastics thoughts (spoilers)" by ty97

I disagree. Multi-team sports would be boring if they were occupied by just one team.

Posted by Max Aug 7 '16, 21:01

You'd have the top 10 be Americans and only a few other countries rounding out the bottom? Boring.

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We're not talking Top 10. We're talking the 3rd best performer isn't permitted onward. - Will Hunting Aug 8, 04:39
If someone wants to win a medal they need to beat the other competitors and not win a medal because a better athlete - Krusty Aug 7, 21:19 5
- better athletes get left out all the time. there's probably at least 50 NBA players that that would be better than most teams. -- nm - mafic Aug 7, 21:31
- Then why limit a country to five? Just let them bring however many dozen they want and whoever qualifies competes. -- nm - Max Aug 7, 21:26 3
  - There's a stark difference between limiting the number of entrants per country due to logistics and not allowing the best entrants to move forward. -- nm - ty97 Aug 7, 21:29 2
    - Exactly. They want to spread the sports to more countries and they feel that this helps by having more countries in the finals. -- (edited) - Krusty Aug 7, 21:41 1
      - World Cup is the same way. USA would never make it in if it were only the best teams. -- nm - CQ Aug 8, 03:44
but that would be impossible -- (edited) - ty97 Aug 7, 21:07 6
- No, the rule changes were in 1976. -- (link) - Roger More Aug 7, 21:18 5
  - Don't ask me how, but in 1996, a Ukranian woman won Gold while a Romanian woman won silver an *two* Romanian women tied for bronze -- (edited) - ty97 Aug 7, 21:22 4
    - That's in the all-round - a max of three athletes per country are allowed in that contest. But only two for each apparatus. -- nm - Roger More Aug 7, 21:29 3
      - We're talking about the all-around only and as Krusty mentioned that was changed in recent history and I disagree with it - ty97 Aug 7, 21:41
      - The two only rule is for the all around which is what we're arguing about. It was added in 2004. -- nm - Krusty Aug 7, 21:35 1
        
        Ah, then I'd say (a) that's not fair and (b) plenty of stuff in sport isn't fair, so get over it. - Roger More Aug 8, 04:44

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