Fair or foul: World Athletics gets rid of unlimited relay substitutions. Rule change is clearly directed at Team USA

douglas burke wrote:

DEPTH SHOULD BE REWAREDED, I Believe World XC started with 9 Runners per Country with Top 6 Scoring not it's 6 Runners with Top 4, I would have Preffered it be 15 Runners per Country with Top 10 Scoring, If almost all High Schools and Colleges have 7 Runners per School with Top 5 Scoring, It is Absurd Countries with millions can only come up with 6.

What Was The Population of EAST Germany When Germany Competed as and was politically 2 Countries I do know West germany had Most of the Populatation like maybe 65 Million, lets say East Germany Had 10-15 Million (if anyone knows the REAL NUMBERS Please feel free to correct my Estimates, But The Point is East Germany Had Great Relay Teams especially in the Woman and Depth as well, They seemed to have more Depth than The USA That had about 250-270 Million Yet East Germany at least in the Woman SEEMED To have more Depth. Why Not Have A 10 Mile Relay With Each Country having 40 Runners each running a 400, or a 20 mile mixed relay 40 Men and 40 Women Each runninng a 400, To Find out Which Country has the Most Depth (USA CURRENTLY) but other Countries would have to step it up to try and compete with and maybe even surpass the USA, In The Womans 4 x 400 There were teams that had 0 or 1 or MAYBE 2 runners who would even have a chance to make the USA example Netherlands had 2 runners Femke Bol and Klaver so 2 good 400 runners (Even Though Bol is Considered a 400 Hurdler said to be switching to the 800 next year, Still she is good in the open 400) but after that their next 2 runners fall off a cliff, Netherlands should NOT be Rewarded for Lack of Depth Instead They should work on getting 10-12 runners at the level of Klaver or better yet like Bol. But most countries dont value Depth even though Depth should be Valued, Just like The USA in the Marathon The USA should not be content with 1 or 2 good runners, better to have the USA instead of having Connor Mantz being the only American in the ALLTIME top 100 list in the Marathon and Half Marathon Better to be battling Kenya and Ethiopia for most Runners in the top 100.