Team GB at the Olympic Games

why are britlards allowed to have a "Team GB" instead of each nation such as england, scotland, Wales etc. sending their own team?

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really baffles me

Because Britain is a country. Scotland, etc aren't real countries. They're just a cultural thing.

>mom I posted it again

imagine england on its own, lmao

Shouldn't it be Team UK, since Great Britain is only England, Wales and Scotland? Do Northern Irish athletes compete on Team GB?

Because England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland aren't sovereign states, the IOC only recognises the UK (as well as the EU, UN etc)

>why do you play seperately in football

Because our teams were founded before FIFA

We'd still be far above France.

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland can be contracted to UK or GB, just like United States of America can become US or America.

England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are not independent Sovereign nations in their own right.

Put simply, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the country, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are provinces of said country,

in what? number of pakis?

Because Great Britain is a sovereign nation state, which is the classification of competing in the Olympics. Tibetan athletes compete for China, for example

In the olympics, the topic of discussion.

>10% muslim

Nice work.

>aren't sovereign states, the IOC only recognises the UK
WRONG

Hong Kong, Virgin Islands, Judea and Samaria, Refugee Team, etc etc.

>(as well as the EU, UN etc)
WRONG

None of those things get teams.

So they should refer to the olympic team as UK, not GB.

Team UK doesn't roll off the tongue as well as Team GB does, and nobody ever calls it Team GB&NI because that's just fucking stupid

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England isn't a country desu

Literally just told you that senpai.

Yes, Great Britain, the largest island of the British Isles, which include other islands such as Ireland.

Hong Kong is an autonomous territory. Each member of the UK is part of one larger country, which is recognised by the EU, UN, IOC etc.

The only exceptions are in sports where we were the first teams to be founded, so we could play each other.

Not true at all

UK is the nation, england etc are countries in that nation

>Each member of the UK is part of one larger country, which is recognised by the EU, UN, IOC etc.
That's true for China including Hong Kong...

Did you just completely ignore the sentence before the one you quoted, or do you not know what autonomous means?

That's just what Alex Salmond likes to tell himself.

Illegal mexican migrant detected

Are you admitting the quoted sentence was totally irrelevant?

If not, perhaps you'd like to account for the problems with it.

No it's the actual truth

>instead of each nation such as england, scotland, Wales etc.
because those aren't nations. Team GB is doing it right. they're only given a pass in association football because they played separately when they were the only places in the world who mattered way back when, and it never got changed back when other nations started winning. it's an exception.

Northern Irish athletes choose who they want to compete for and can swap at any time not during games

Country just means nation and you've already admitted Britain is a nation.

The uk is a nation of 3 countries and a province

Countries = England, Scotland and Wales

Province= Northern Ireland

'no'

>Are you admitting the quoted sentence was totally irrelevant?
No, it's the reason why the UK competes as one. You just brought up Hong Kong even though it's not fully integrated into China.

I'm not really sure what your argument is. Thos is all ready accessible information on the internet.

Not always.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain_national_rugby_sevens_team
>Northern Irish players according to the British Olympic Association's rules as British citizens would have been eligible to play for Great Britain; however the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) demanded that they only play for the Ireland national rugby sevens team as rugby in Ireland is organised on an All-Ireland basis.

>However, it was stated that Northern Irish and Ulster contracted players could legally challenge that determination, particularly if Ireland failed to qualify.

This has been happening for years in boxing too, with competators forced to compete for the Republic despite being Brits from Britain.

Good argument Mr First Minister.

>the quoted sentence is the reason why the UK competes as one.
Really?

>Each member of the UK is part of one larger country, which is recognised by the EU, UN, IOC etc.
Well considering other places that are recognised as part of one larger country by the EU, UN and IOC do compete separately, that's demonstrably a lie.

>Implying Wales, Scotland and NI could produce an olympic athlete without the help of England.

If eating deep fried mars bars was a sport perhaps.

>they're only given a pass in association football
And cricket, rugby, etc

>Well considering other places that are recognised as part of one larger country by the EU, UN and IOC do compete separately, that's demonstrably a lie.
Which countries are these?

Hong Kong is a member of the UN and recognised by the IOC.

The other examples you have are the Virgin Islands, an overseas territory not part of the UK, Judea and Samaria, not a country recognised by the IOC, and the Refugee Team which is a political anomaly.

Any more questions, want me to have a look at your homework for you?

We'll do what we fucking want

>Which countries are these?
>countries
None, that's the point!

You're wrong on most of your other points too by the way.

Why are so many people having trouble with the concept of the UK lately? The UK is a single nation, not a group of them. Think of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as being like states in the US. The proper name to describe them is often debated, but none of them are singular sovereign states. England, Scotland and Wales were once separate states, many centuries ago, but since the United Kingdom was formed they have been a single collective nation, along with Northern Ireland.

The full name is Team Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Team GB is just a snappier way of sayig it so it has stuck.

>still no examples

Good game, kid.

>he can't count

then why you don't go as GB on Fifa tournaments?

Why don't you read your own thread, spic?

Wales was never a separate state. Only England and Scotland ever were.

More importantly, why is it called GB instead of UK? This triggers me so much and I'm not even British.

Trust me, it doesn't trigger you as much as it triggers Ulstermen.

It's technically GB and NI. Also remember when we first entered the olympics in 1896, Northern Ireland didn't exist.

>Mexicuck upset about GB being #3

Get better athletes and stop crying. Plenty of time for that when the wall goes up.

cross eyed inbred white woman

Wat

>forced
The idea is that in those sports where the Olympics is not the primary competition, and the sport is organised in a cross border capacity, everyone agrees to play for Ireland, to avoid opening up rugby players to the political pressure that comes with being made to choose.

Besides, these sports are largely organised and funded by money going from the Republic into the North. IRFU runs rugby in Ulster. GB has nothing to do with it. Northeen rowing schools compete mostly in Irish regattas and receive grants from the IARU.

It would only foster bitterness in rugby if Team GB were to come in and start picking Ulster lads. It could actually tear the sport in the country apart at the seams.