They do have a lot of restrictions. Nowadays even in “smaller” sports world tournaments are played by 24/32 teams, while they’re limited to only 12 team. And I’m referring to almost all of them, from basketball and volleyball, to field hockey, water polo and handball too. Football is the only sport having 16 teams. So it’s already like that.
It’s the FIFA which doesn’t want and can’t force clubs and National federations to consider Olympics as a bigger tournament. They make do with world Cup (which anyway has more spectators by itself than all the Olympic mayor sports combined). And don’t forget that football is much more centered on clubs rather than national teams. That’s another issue. Except for the WC and such tournaments, nobody cares about national teams at all.
As to expand the length of the Olympics I definitely agree, even two weeks longer. But with such a crammed schedule and so many events being held at the same time, I would rather reduce pressure and the number of sports included. Imagine how big of an effort it would be on the city hosting the event if they had to increase athletes by 30%/50%, make them stay longer, basically block the city for three weeks/ a month… Unfeasible
Did you pass to the knock-out stage, or were you eliminated in the qualification stage? In the second case you aren’t…
Just kidding, if it is true that you at least went to Paris to shoot a bow you are Olympic worthy, who gives a fuck where you end up. Anyway if you did qualify for round of 64 there’s a chance I saw you, as I saw pretty much the whole competition… Sadly I lost on the preselections because I wasn’t aware they were being held so early