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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Skiing has Alpine events (downhill, slalom, giant slalom, and super G), cross-county (with 10km, 15km, 30 km, and 50 km individual events plus individual and team sprints and a 4 x 10km team relay), Nordic combined events (first a jump, then a cross-country race), freestyle events (moguls, ariels, ski-cross, half-pipe, et al), bi-athalon, ski-jumping, and more if you include snowboards as part of this category.
Unless your name is Michael Phelps, it is unlikely that you would compete in anything other than your stroke discipline at different distances (e.g. just butterfly events, just backstroke events, or just freestyle at perhaps two different distances) plus your stroke in a relay or as part of a freestyle relay team.
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