Why is this stat-padding allowed?

why is this stat-padding allowed?
a """"sport"""" which only really needs 4 events per gender should not be producing this amount of medals, it makes them worthless

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>252 total events
bit unnecessary desu

>mfw, 1 US cycling gold

Get fucked, faggots.

But swmming backwards and swimming on your side are totally valid events!

It's the only sport America is good at so obviously they have to have 6 gorillion events

Humans have webbed fingers
deal with it

>Check thread
>Check flag

Every single time

Don't understand why there isnt just one per sport
>but I can't go that far
>but I can't start that fast
>but I prefer kicking this way
>but I'm too small
>but I'm too fat
>but I'm a woman
Then unless you win you're not fucking good enough to be the best.

Fucking ameriswims

>Mens 50 metre freestyle
>Mens100 metre freestyle
>Mens 200 metre freestyle
>Mens 400 metre freestyle
>Mens 1500 metre freestyle
>Mens 100 metre backstroke
>Mens 200 metre backstroke
>Mens 100 metre breaststroke
>Mens 200 metre breaststroke
>Mens 100 metre butterfly
>Mens 200 metre butterfly
>Mens 200 metre individual medley
>Mens 400 metre individual medley
>Mens 100 metre freestyle relay
>Mens 200 metre freestyle relay
>Mens 100 metre medley relay
>Mens marathon 10k
>Womens 50 metre freestyle
>Womens 100 metre freestyle
>Womens 200 metre freestyle
>Womens 400 metre freestyle
>Womens 1500 metre freestyle
>Womens 100 metre backstroke
>Womens 200 metre backstroke
>Womens 100 metre breaststroke
>Womens 200 metre breaststroke
>Womens 100 metre butterfly
>Womens 200 metre butterfly
>Womens 200 metre individual medley
>Womens 400 metre individual medley
>Womens 100 metre freestyle relay
>Womens 200 metre freestyle relay
>Womens 100 metre medley relay
>Womens marathon 10k

Maybe you all should just learn to swim

>63% of medals is swimshit

It's more of a sport than that Nascar like thingy you guys love so much just because you snatch a few gold medals. Track cycling. wtf is up with that boring ass shit?

>it's a mad non-American episode

...

it's pretty retarded desu. Like phelps wins a different medal every few hours and everyone goes crazy

meanwhile other people train their whole life for a chance at one medal

I dont care about the medal count but its annoying since Im just bored of it by now. They have two channels showing the olympics here and swimming enjoys priority over most other sports id rather watch

Fucking ameriswims

>34 events
>108 chances to get an olympic medal
fucking hell, i don't know how anyone can defend this

To be fair, they have to compensate for the sports where the Olympics border on irrelevant, like football or even basketball to an extent. There are some image considerations.

>over 50% of USA and Australia's medals are from swimming

About 80%

Backrunning event when?

We need to invent new methods of swimming, so that USA can win more medals

maybe learn how to swim you pale sack of poo

>They're onto us!

>live on island
>can't swim
L M A O

Honestly though, I see the point of different strokes, but get rid of the butterfly at least. It serves no purpose and is fucking retarded. Freestyle, breaststroke, and even backstroke all have practical applications and are distinct enough from each other to do. Butterfly is just dumb

the top 10 once swimming has been removed

>"Great" Britain still has less medals than the US

What did he mean by this?

>China scooping up all the meme and manlet medals

>tfw not a swimfag

feels good to have horses who swimm for you

It's aesthetic as fuck. Ever see someone doing butterfly sprints at a local pool and everyone stops and stares? Also, butterfly kick happens to be the fastest when swimming underwater fully submerged

if you ignore statpadding and only ount per sport USA has won in 5 different sports, australia in 3 and china is the nation with more golds.

Why would you only count per sport?

Here you go :

Mens 150 metre freestyle
Mens 2000 metre freestyle
Mens 400 metre freestyle relay
Womens 150 metre freestyle
Womens 2000 metre freestyle
Womens 400 metre freestyle relay

Worse than rowing.

>humans don't live in the sea
>somehow the "sport" whith the largest ammount of olympic events is swimming
I wonder who's behind this

>humans are made out of 80% water
>somehow the sport with the largest amount of olympic events is water based

I love how the bongs ignore all the medals coming up from Track and Field as if there aren't a metric fuckton of medals at all distances and types of things done on track and field. Or the fact that the US will dominate in those, too, overall.

Technically, we all live on islands.

really makes you think

>euros still shut out

I don't know why you all still get butthurt about this

why can't brits swim

>we don't know how to swim

I wonder who's behind this post

These people on picture are Americans m7

be water my friend

the only events that matter are freestyle events

>BUT BREASTSTROKE CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE
shit i forgot, this is the "survival" olympics and not the "go fast" olympics

They loon like Argentinians to me

Listen here faggot since I know you've never been outside in your life

The distance changes in track and field make it actually hard to compete in both short and long distances. Bolt, the greatest athlete alive, better than Phelps, can only win 2 medals an olympics

It's funny that the Yuropoors call for more variations of running events thinking that would more equalize the medal count?

Don't they realize we're much more dominant in track than in swimming?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_Summer_Olympics

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_Summer_Olympics

Fun fact. You could take away all our swimming and track-and-field medals, and we'd still top the all-time medal table.

We are, simply, the greatest athletes to ever walk this earth. Swimming or no swimming.

>suggesting Argentines and Americans look the same
You wish

Ridiculous.

>0.37% of the population identified as Afro-Argentine.

You idiots want to list the track and field events now?

You can't compare swimming with track

In swimmin the same athlete can participate in 20 different competitions and win 20 medals in one Olympic

There aren't track athletes who can compete in both 100m and 600m

Why are Argies so pissy about being/not being white European?

They should add few more categories to track. Like 100m frog hoping, 100m butt scooting, 100m crawl, 100m 1 leg jumping, 200m frog hoping...

I'm not pissy, I'm pretty chill.
Maybe you should ask the opposite.

Why are chicanos so butthurt that we are majority-white that they had to go out of the way to make a whole meme about it on Sup Forums?

>There aren't track athletes who can compete in both 100m and 600m
No, but there are athletes that compete in the 100m, 200m, 400m, plus relays and/or hurdles and/or jumps and/or decathalon, etc.

Sprints
60 m
100 m
200 m
400 m

Middle-distance
800 m
1500 m
3000 m

Long-distance
5000 m
10,000 m

Hurdles
60 m hurdles
100 m hurdles
110 m hurdles
400 m hurdles
3000 m steeplechase

Relays
4×100 m relay
4×400 m relay

Jumps
Long jump
Triple jump
High jump
Pole vault

Throws
Shot put
Discus throw
Hammer throw
Javelin throw

Combined
Pentathlon
Heptathlon
Decathlon

And double all those events for mens/womens.

>there are athletes that compete in the 100m, 200m, 400m, plus relays and/or hurdles and/or jumps and/or decathalon, etc

Bait

Most an athlete can do is 100, 200, sprint relays, long jump

>Most an athlete can do is 100, 200, sprint relays, long jump
False. But I've got to run to work now, so we'll pick this up later with specific examples.

Also, Phelps, Hosszu, Ledecky, etc. are the exceptions, not the norm in swimming.

Who gives a shit? Add more track evens, by all fuckin' means. Add the 100m side shuffle, the 200m skip. More medals for us and more foreigner complaining.

We're the most dominant entity in athletics the world has ever known.

and when the women have been removed? let's be honest women events are just glorified paralympics

hungary btfo

What the fuck is this shit?

>everyone in this thread taking all this bait

It doesn't matter how many medals any event has, no one is stopping anyone from competing. The simple fact is they haven't been able to compete at our level. There's an awful lot of envious people itt who wish to take away our achievements because they can't have them for themselves, this is crabs in a barrel mentality, "I can't lift myself up, so I'll drag you down."

Sad!

They should get rid of 200m events and medleys desu

People from foreign lands swim TOWARDS us m8, not the other way around.

ITT: retards who have never swam or rowed

>Mo Farah will never be able to compete at every distance in three different styles and win the 20+ golds he deserves