It might have been arbitrary many decades ago to decide the cut-off to be at 3, but the athletes have been since optimizing for those arbitrary rules, i.e. gett

It might have been arbitrary many decades ago to decide the cut-off to be at 3, but the athletes have been since optimizing for those arbitrary rules, i.e. getting somewhere above that cut-off. Instead of maximizing for first place, which requires a different strategy, i.e going „all in“.