If you adjust for population growth and the growth of the games, it's clear that we should be giving medals to more than just the top three. And the results have gotten even closer. When I see someone like Torri Huske miss a medal by a hundredths of seconds, I think that something is just wrong.
There should be medals going down much lower in the results.
That’s true for some events, baseball has 6 teams competing so if you copied say MOBA’s/RTS’s and have bronze, silver, gold, platinum and diamond you’ll have what 5 out of 6 teams getting a medal?
Medals aren’t everything passing the qualifiers is an achievement on its own…
After cardboard, sticker! gold stars through pink unicorns. and then a used pizza box for last place, because everyone else needs to feel better than someone.
There should be medals going down much lower in the results.