Eggs Aktlee wrote:
FFF wrote:
Ward only finished 6th in Rio because each country is limited to three competitors.
Clearly, if Kenya and Ethiopia were allowed to enter everyone, Ward would finish a bit further back. This isn't hard to comprehend. Some countries are DEEP, others are not. The US is one of the others.
This^^^X1000.
While wnning a medal in the Olympics is the ultimate prize, it is not, however the contest with the best entrants.
If that were the case the US, including Galen Rupp at Rio would be way, way out of the medals.
If you have to enter 10+ athletes to get more than 1 into the medals, your athletes clearly have performance issues. The US athletes show up, we sent the same number of athletes as Kenya and Ethiopia and placed more in the top 10.
The Olympics do have the best athletes, not all of them, but they have the top from each country so if these east Africans are truly the best, they should sweep the top 6 with their 6 entries. Which they can't do.