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In response to "I disagree. Multi-team sports would be boring if they were occupied by just one team." by Max

but that would be impossible -- (edited)

Posted by ty97 Aug 7 '16, 21:07

Each country can only enter 5 athletes. And of those 5 only 4 get to participate on each apparatus. If you choose 4 to do all apparatus and have the 5th do nothing (is that possible?) then you'd have at most 4 from one country. Otherwise you'd have at most 3 from one country.

*24* people qualify for the individual all-around.

But honestly, I don't care if you think it's "boring". This shouldn't be graded on a curve. It's the Olympics. (and it wasn't always curved. The year Nadia Comaneci won, all 3 on the podium were Romanian I believe).

This year, leaving out higher qualified athletes, you get get the following lesser athletes 'curved' into the all-around:

- The Brit who injured herself and didn't finish floor exercise
- The second best French qualifier
- The first best Italian qualifier
- The second best German qualifier
- The second best Italian qualifier

Responses:

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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