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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Number of medals awarded =/= amount of representation. It’s just a quirk of how individual race sports function, in comparison to how team sports with long game times like cricket function.
It’s up to the individual governing bodies of each sport to determine how they format themselves. If a football match could be over in 25 seconds, they’d probably have more space to have more medals. But it doesn’t go that quick.
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