I have not deleted any of these articles... but I suspect you are going to be much like Sisyphus while you are introducing and defending these articles. Might you consider creating a page of World Cup Competitors (Non Winning), rather than an individual article for each athlete, even the ones who have two sentences of information, basically saying "they competed, they lost, they were bummed." I'm being flippant, but it's a thought. Best regards.  (Talk) (Stuff)