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Olympics Tokyo 2021 - sport
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The reason for some sporting bodies having the separate components of Great Britain as competing members and other sporting bodies having Great Britain in its entirety, is not some conspiracy theory of the English choosing when they “need the rest of the others” or not.
It’s simply a legacy of the very early days of competition in these sports, when there weren’t really many other countries to play internationals against. So the “home nations” played among themselves. Given they were founding members of that sport, to honour this tradition, there’s never been any suggestion to wind it up to compete as Great Britain.
It’s simply a legacy of the very early days of competition in these sports, when there weren’t really many other countries to play internationals against. So the “home nations” played among themselves. Given they were founding members of that sport, to honour this tradition, there’s never been any suggestion to wind it up to compete as Great Britain.
PT, yes yes, all true probably, but it won't stop me using the "when England decide they need help" line.
Rugby league not quite right. There is an England rugby league side but they also compete as Great Britain, in a similar way to Rugby Union that play as each nation but also as the British and Irish Lions.
This is a good article explained here, similar to what you say but not because not enough teams to play against but more to do with the BOA encompassing all of the UK, rather than individual associations.
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The reason why the Commonwealth games are different is because each country has a seperate Commonwealth Games Association of which each UK country has 1 each hence why they compete as individual countries, but the IOC only recognise the 1 association (The British Olympic Association).
The Lions tour a different country 4 years I think whereas Great Britain for League happens every 2 years against Aus (The Ashes), not sure about other countries.
There was an ANZAC rugby team once. Played one match against the Lions during the 89 Tour.
Again it depends on your definition of a country, for a lot of people this means somewhere you wouldn’t need to seek independence from another governing entity. No need for glasses in the face as long as definitions of language are understood.
You know. Think I remember discovering them when I was a randy teenager watching the Atlanta Games. Them and the Spanish ladies team were quite a hit to my teenage eyes.
I believe Australia and New Zealand also competed as a combined Australasia team in one of the early modern Olympics too.
