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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
I'm all for covering a lot of sports by why does the team have to be SOOOOO big? Do we need to have people going over that will finish at best 40th even if they hit a personal best?
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There'll never be a perfect solution.
If you shrink the team and then make bigger targetted allocations to specific sports, people will complain that we are putting all of our eggs in one basket, and that we aren't giving other people a chance to improve.
I think of Croatia as an example. Both of their medals have come in sports that they don't traditionally represent (mens gymnastics and womens weightlifting). If the Croatian Olympic team only targeted athletes from sports that they traditionally had a shot at (football, handball, tennis, basketball), then maybe those other 2 athletes wouldn't have had a shot.
You never know what's on the radar in 4 years time.