It seems disproportionate to other sport, except maybe gymnastics. Some popular sports don’t even have any representation, like cricket or bowling or squash. How did swimming get so much representation?
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Likely because you can do tons of events with the same pool. Same as track and field, you have a ton of options with the same track.
For cricket, you would need to build and maintain a cricket pitch and it can’t really be used for other sports. Just to respond to one of your examples.
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