Poor Olympiad for top players

This Olympiad has been a great success for young players, India and Uzebekistan in particular, of course. At the same time, the established players had a pretty rough time.

Look at the rating gains and (mostly) losses of the 12 highest rated players (before the Olympiad, that is):

 1  Carlsen            - 3.0
 2  Caruana           -18.3
 3  Aronian           -16.4
 4  So                    - 2.0
 5  Giri                  + 4.3
 6  Mamedyarov   - 0.5
 7  Dominguez     - 9.4
 8  Duda               - 9.1
 9  Harikrishna     - 3.8
10  Shankland      - 7.5
11  Vidit               - 3.7
12  Wojtaszek      -14.8

Wow! The only player with a (small) gain is Anish Giri. All other players lost, some rather big.

Also noteworthy is that none of these players played in a team from the top three.

In fact, neither Uzbekistan, Armenia or India 2 had *any* 2700+ player in their team.

Who would have predicted that?

The weather...
That is why MVL and Firouzja did not play

Fascinating numbers. The much vaunted USA team all lost rating points.  Who would have predicted that!?. I guess these events are very different for the top players than the usual run of 'elite' tournaments.

wow I knew that there were big losses but I did not expect Giri to be the only one to gain rating 

Sam Shankland could have both saved much of his rating loss, as well as offered the USA a chance to win the thing by doing nothing more than not picking pieces up like he's playing otb bullet.