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There are a bunch of dumbass sports that no one gives a shit about like equestrian and golf and sailing lol.
There’s a reason why most of the highly covered sports are sports that theoretically can be mastered by anybody in the world regardless of financial situation and upbringing - aquatics, athletics, soccer, etc. Get rid of the bougie nonsense, and I imagine the US drops down by a couple dozen medals
Athletics and swimming represent roughly half of all US medals. Athletics, swimming, gymnastics, and wrestling respresent 75 or 80% of all medals. The bougie medals, equestrian, golf, sailing, fencing? rowing? tennis? represent 9/122 by my count.
also the us literally won gold in womens soccer. And got a medal in every track and field relay.
Swimming and athletics dominate the medal counts because they have
different events, just like speed skating in the winter olympics.
the US pretty much dominated athletics