Summer Olympic Games 2016 Wild Cards

[bestmen 2,566]

why they give these wildcards to many weak athlets

while other athletes were very closer to qualify  and they are marginalized

[JoshMartini007 2,222]

40 minutes ago, bestmen said:

why they give these wildcards to many weak athlets

while other athletes were very closer to qualify  and they are marginalized

 

Universality is important to the Olympics, it's the same reason as why we have continental quotas or even maximum quotas for one nation. Of course there's a reason why tripartite nations don't qualify many athletes. Sometimes their choice can be weird, for example if you are going to give Bangladesh an archery quota give it to the men's since he's much better (even among the men which got the quota).

Edited July 14, 2016 by JoshMartini007

[dcro 10,182]

Updated with swimming and weightlifting. The list is getting huge.