Comments on: maximum number of Olympians

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:50:02 +0000

Sometimes I am not sure people really read the post clearly before commenting. I’m just sayin’

By: BB

BB — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:25:30 +0000

I agree with the above that Swimming and track both have completely more events.

A Better comparison would have been between how many athletes they take for Equestrian games (which has only 6 events, Show Jumping, Dressage, and Three Day eventing, both team and individual). In Beijing, the US took 18 athletes total:
* Artistic (14)
* Rhythmic (2)
* Trampoline (2)
While for Equestrian games we took a total of:
8 people

By: Gem

Gem — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:38:57 +0000

Well if gymnastics had more events such as beam with a time limit of 2 minutes or height of 2m. A vault of 1M height a floor routine within 10x10m then we could be just like swimming with several events that are basically the same.

By: HWa

HWa — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:49:17 +0000

There are a lot more swimming events then gymnastics events. This is a stupid comparison

By: Skyrider 95

Skyrider 95 — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:28:23 +0000

Consider trampoline, in the olympics it’s considered a subdevision of gymnastics and because it’s not actually a gymnastics event they limit the total athletes in the sport to 32 (16 males and 16 females). A maximum of 4 per country. In gymnastics because it’s considered a team event they have to have a number per team and for them to allow specialist (espescially in women’s) they would have to eliminate the team competition all together and just have all around and individual events.

And they would then most likely limit the total number of atheletes who compete per even to 16 eight of whom would make finals.

So each country that qualifies a team should realy be looking for the athletes who can help them in all 4 or 6 events the most even if it means they wont be getting a bunch of individual medals. The athlete should be glad they’re even going to the olympics at all.