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One particular difficulty is that now we have hundreds of countries with hundreds of languages (thousands) so you will not be able to put any objective (and probably even subjective) criteria to judge. Some languages have better poetry structure by default (i.e Arabic) and if we translate everything to English (one of the worst languages for poetry in my subjective opinion) then you will lose much of the originality and meanings that is attached to language structures used.


If anything the number of languages is decreasing and Independent participants do exist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Olympians_at_the_O... and we even saw mixed team https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_teams_at_the_Olympics




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