You have a point! But undeniably skilful requiring lots of practice and I'd rather watch that than a 10 year old in baggy shorts with a back to front baseball cap.....which is how I envisage skateboarding and if it's not like that I don't care cos I still don't think it has a place in the Olympics.
Tbh it's more about the olympics trying to stay relevant. As you said, for some sports it clearly is the pinnacle (athletics) but for others it's probably not even in the top 3 (football).
Doped to the gills, wouldn't be surprised if she had gills actually, she was that unnatural.
I see here they count by the total quantity of medals,I usually check in google and there they give "places" by the quantity of golden medalsMedal Tracker
NA counts medals everywhere else counts golds, then silvers, then bronzes.
The IOC are dicks, seriously I love adding of most sports (except Golf) but Squash has gone above and beyond to get included and they still won't allow it in for 'reasons'
Not really a surprise the IOC are one of the most litigation heavy sports organisations out there.
Tonnes of Twitch streamers got done for this I heard
They have both on the ESPN medal tracker. There's the total medal count on top for the top three countries, and also an all countries button above it where all the countries are listed and you can see what medals they've won and in what events.
Just out of interest, I presume you're against tennis being in it too?
