One of the things that has kept bowling out of the Olympics is the limit on the number of sports and competitors for sheer logistical reasons.
That has meant adding new sports means removing existing ones — not an easy task politically. Just look at the ruckus over wrestling being removed a while ago!
Even with those limits, the Olympics has become so costly to stage that all but a handful of countries — “the richest or most self-indulgent,” as the Chicago Tribune put...