Maybe it's just me, but I find it a bit ridiculous how many medals you can actually win in sports such as swimming and track & field. I mean, look at swimming... 100m, 200m, each have breaststroke, backstroke, freestyle, butterfly that you can win in. Then there are 50m, 400m, 1500m freestyles. Then there are 200m and 400m individual medleys. And then there is 100 m four-men relay and also 200 m four-men relay. AND there is a 10k marathon. That's 16 gold medals, 16 silver, 16 bronze available in just swimming, for each gender.
I don't know. I guess I just find it not fair because they are talking about getting rid of softball in Olympics and that's only just one gold, one silver, one bronze... maybe they should consider getting rid of 200m swimming category or something... Cuz if 100m is considered short distance and 1500m is considered long, we can just do with one mid-range distance, can't we?