Why is running one of the only sports with this mindset? It's an individual sport. I went to the US Open and no one was complaining that the 5th Best US, Argentinian, or Spanish player was competing. People just wanted to see the best players and the most exciting matchups, not a less qualified Bulgarian to replace Grigor Dimitrov cuz he's hurt. AT some point yes, cap it. But defending champ and regular season champ is not that point.
Fairly silly post here.
I assure you that Olympic golf and tennis don't have unlimited entries per country.
Track has meets with and without team entries, this same as gold and tennis.
Makes zero sense because in golf and tennis you aren't competing for your country.
You can be countryless and compete, see Medvedev or any Russian or Belarussian.
Its the equivalent of the diamond league in that sense.
The World Athletics Championships is literally about each country sending their best. The countries are the teams, its not just about being the best athlete.
You know during the Davis Cup, USA cant enter 6 tennis teams right?
The Davis Cup is a team competition. Outside of relays, Worlds is an individual championship that just do to the weirdness of the sport is organized by national federations. But the athletes are training independently and with athletes from other countries. In every tennis match, unless the country is banned their country is listed. Luis Grijalva is more a teammate to Nico Young than Grant Fisher, that's just how it is. Next year at the Ultimate Athletics Championships they will compete in national kits, but there'll be no country limit. It seems like a tacit admission that the current system isn't the best for seeing the actual best.
I assure you that Olympic golf and tennis don't have unlimited entries per country.
Track has meets with and without team entries, this same as gold and tennis.
Thoughts...leader?
Are we talking about the Olympics, bud? Every other golf or tennis competition that isn't explicitly a team competition doesn't put on country limits. That includes the majors, the tour championships.
Fisher can't let these races go slow. Living life on repeat watching his races go slow then getting out kicked. Meanwhile he still has the WL in both the 3k/5k