Thanks for your opinion, sounds reasonable. But I don’t think football is the sport that requires the most time between matches. It’s rather historically that you don’t have more than 1 match during the workdays, and that’s mostly an international one since the weekend is reserved for domestic league. When you look at NBA basketball with up to 4 games per week, I wouldn’t argue that it’s half the power needed compared to football. It’s rather that athletes got used to that rhythm and get compensated by at least 4 full months of recovery (current Olympics aside)!

At least, Djokovic seemed to have been passionate about the Olympics this year. But that might rather be a collector’s issue: what title is still missing?

American football aside, I don’t see the mentioned “lot of team sports” that has restrictions as to who can compete, at least not nowadays. It works perfectly fine for basketball, handball, women’s soccer etc…

Sure, you would have to limit such a tournament to 12…16 teams. I wouldn’t want to take anything away from the sidelined sports, why not have both and expand the length of the Olympic games?

You could implement the already existing rules in a whole different way. Is it a problem with the women’s Olympic tournament?