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As told to me by my spouse, a new Olympics rule allows only 2 girls from each country to compete in individual events, WTF?
I may have this wrong, but how this strikes me as a way to reduce the domination of certain country teams. In other words if you have a team of the best athletes, only 2 of those would be allowed to compete in each seperste event.
So if I understand it, all team members can attempt to qualify, but what that means is instead of everyone who qualifies getting a chance to compete, the competition is artificially reduced, and the real silver winner maybe shut out going to a lesser athlete.
Is there a different reason for this?
I may have this wrong, but how this strikes me as a way to reduce the domination of certain country teams. In other words if you have a team of the best athletes, only 2 of those would be allowed to compete in each seperste event.
So if I understand it, all team members can attempt to qualify, but what that means is instead of everyone who qualifies getting a chance to compete, the competition is artificially reduced, and the real silver winner maybe shut out going to a lesser athlete.
Is there a different reason for this?
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