May you please elaborate that part of Olympic rule(s) about the player restrictions... IS it all about a team consists only three players (for the team event) while each NOC can only send two players at most for the singles competitions??
Btw I notice it seems there's no rigid rule about which players to be fielded in the singles, it's all up to each team's decision who they will play as single #1 & #2 and so on (not strictly based on the World Ranking)...
3 players only per team ( 2 of them are the men's singles and of course the ITTF rankings are also a factor tha causes some restrictions as for who is going for team and who for singles) is a form of restriction if you ask me, especially when korea and japan have players like jang woojin and yuya oshima who can challenge the chinese much more than koki niwa or joo sae huyk.
So It would be wise if the team event was more "free" somehow. Im not saying that jang or oshima would have very good chances to beat CNT but they definitely have better chances than koki or joo which the CNT players are so familiar with for years. I bet they didnt see youngsik coming that strong
So even if china is allowed to have 4 or 5 players it does not make a difference because other countries will have their strong players also. with the 3 player limitation, oshima and woojin were out of the equation. There is also masataka morizono, who cannot do much in singles but in doubles is really great
So to wrap it up its better if more players are allowed cause you let other countries mix things up , the CNT has top 5 players anyway, but when you cut down to 3 they are even more strong.
