Just a steam-letting off moment- I get to watch the track & field competitors fight for 3 places in the Games, but swimming which used to allow 3, just grants a measly 2 slots for a country. Yes, I know it was originally done to limit US dominance in the pool back when, but the swimming world is a very different place today. If a country can sweep the top 3 places in the games today, then that would be neat and I don't care which country it would be.
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Most of the sports that have subjective judging as an integral part of the selection process have a "cult of personalities" that either control or dominate the sport. It's true for figure skating, rhythmic gymnastics, synchronized swimming and the like. Gymnastics, esp. on the women's side is, however, probably the worst of the lot. I used to hate to work with these sports because you often got trapped between factions and no matter what you did, someone was upset.
The stories I could tell...
Give me track & field, swimming and XC skiing any day.
-LBJ
Most of the sports that have subjective judging as an integral part of the selection process have a "cult of personalities" that either control or dominate the sport. It's true for figure skating, rhythmic gymnastics, synchronized swimming and the like. Gymnastics, esp. on the women's side is, however, probably the worst of the lot. I used to hate to work with these sports because you often got trapped between factions and no matter what you did, someone was upset.
The stories I could tell...
Give me track & field, swimming and XC skiing any day.
-LBJ
