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Definitely plays a part in gymnastics too. Each country was limited to five athletes in 2016, when the US probably could have fielded two full teams of five and brought home two team medals. There's also the two per country rule in the all around finals, where even the third highest all around score can be kept out of the all around finals if the top two scores are from their same country. It kept Jordyn Weiber out of the all around competition in 2012 and Gabby Douglas out in 2016.
In short, you can be the third best overall gymnast in the world and kept out of the competition because the first and second best were on your team too. Pretty close parallel to being the fourth best overall IOC team, but kept out of finals because 1st, 2nd, and 3rd were from the US too.
Gymnastics is the only sport that does this AT the Olympics though correct?