Why “Team GB”?

! This post hasn't been updated in over a year. A lot can change in a year including my opinion and the amount of naughty words I use. There's a good chance that there's something in what's written below that someone will find objectionable. That's fine, if I tried to please everybody all of the time then I'd be a Lib Dem (remember them?) and I'm certainly not one of those. The point is, I'm not the kind of person to try and alter history in case I said something in the past that someone can use against me in the future but just remember that the person I was then isn't the person I am now nor the person I'll be in a year's time.

I have no interest in the Olympics – we don’t have an English team and there are many, many more things that those billions could be spent on, like cancer treatments and housing homeless people.

I do have to wonder, though, why the UK’s Olympic body insists on calling its team “Great Britain”.

Great Britain is a geographical term referring to the big island that England shares with Scotland and Wales but the GB Olympic team includes Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, none of which are on Great Britain.

As an Olympic team name, it’s pretty rubbish as it leaves out nearly 2% of the population.  That’s hardly representative of the Olympics values.  Perhaps it’ll be renamed for the 2012 Olympics to Team British Nations, Regions, Provinces and Crown Dependencies located in the British Isles.  Team BNRPCDLBI doesn’t roll off the tongue like Team GB, I’ll grant you, but at least it doesn’t leave anybody out.

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6 comments

  1. Rob (27 comments) says:

    Good point. But the athletes have done well.

    At least is shows that some people from this country with a little hard work can be successful.

  2. axel (1214 comments) says:

    Maybe it is all about FCs policy of Britishness is Brilliant? Maybe they think, that it is too complex to ask people to be british and to ask them to support Team UK?

  3. Charlie Marks (365 comments) says:

    “there are many, many more things that those billions could be spent on, like cancer treatments and housing homeless people.”

    Sounds like a militant far left anarchist agenda, wonko. Are you feeling alright? 😉

  4. axel (1214 comments) says:

    Charlie

    No, I think he meant the application of Neutron Bombs to Glasgow, the ‘cancer treatment’ will kill 87% of the population in 26 hours hence solving the homeless problem too, as there will be lots of intestate people whose ex homes will be sold to the survivors

  5. Kelvin60 (1 comments) says:

    He would be inclined to call de Vries’s mutation theory, figuratively, the quantum theory of biology. ,

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