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what do you mean? the skaters who get medals are the ones skating segments of the competition, not everyone on the team.
there are other sports that do similar team events... for instance, we could look at equestrians...
there are also new formats of relays in all sorts of disciplines including luge and skiing.
The point is that the IOC wants to have more and more team events (as long as they don't mean adding extra athletes) and they also want more and more mixed sports. It's why we see these events coming in year after year and not some others. I am happy that there is a team event at the Olympics because for instance, it encourages nations to develop all disciplines. Look at China for instance, they are slowly starting to build young Ice dance teams and I am pretty sure it's because they want to get closer to the podium for 2022. If they manage to do what they did for pairs, China will be a superpower in skating ! that's awesome!
I also suggested a team event for our GP prediction game