I think it would be amusing to watch every denomination of Christianity (and other religious denominations) compete to settle the Schism score once and for all!
@@y7va No no. You did not get it. The Russian anthem is not being played because of the penalty. So they are just flexing the Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 every time an ROC athlete wins.
It's basically just because the BVI got in there early enough. If the Faroe Islands had organised their own National Olympic Committee and fielded a team before 1996 then they'd have one now. After 1996 only sovereign nations could join, except any non-sovereign territories which were already members.
They cant be in the Olympics? Are you sure its just not an issue of no athletes? I know my country doesn't always compete because we just dont' have the athletes for it.
As a Taiwanese living in New Taipei City, I have to say... the Isle of Man really sounds like the last bastion of humanity in a post-apocalyptic world.
As an Indian I will never be surprised by the poor performance of India as we only have like 45 min in the whole week in which we can play at school and at times a random teacher takes that too
@@Snp2024 yeah moreover the social stigma (you know the idiom "padhoge likhoge banoge nawab, kheloge kudoge banoge kharab") that parents always see sports as bad and academic performance is all that matters.
@@Snp2024 only few parents support their kids decisions on sports and those are the ones who go to Olympics (we see news that how this athletes mother and that ones father supported them and they thank them). And the same people who are praise them for winning medals discourage their kids to go towards sports.
And Utah has the Great Salt Lake (i.e. the lake itself), Salt Lake County, Salt Lake City, and the Salt Lake Metropolitan Area. So when someone says they're from "Salt Lake," you end up with a pretty large area to guess from.
And yet Cape Town, one of the three capitals, is arguably more well known (internationally) compared to the largest city, Johannesburg, despite being smaller.
The Northern Ireland situation in the olympics also happens with Puerto Rico. Puerto Rican athletes (being technically American citizens) can represent either the United States or participate in the Puerto Rico team. This happens in every international competition where both teams exist.
Maybe the reason powerful countries do so well at the Olympics on average is because they have more built up sporting infrastructure and facilities in order to train the athletes to a higher level compared to less wealthier countries.
@@Ziad3195 Doping is the use of drugs like steroids to enhace performance, for example to build bigger muscles, which is forbidden in the Olympics as it gives them an unfair advantage over others
I think more western countries have better facilites, not to get too into politics but, in short theyre richer. Countries like USA, Great Britain and China are bound to do well because of wealth in the way that history has worked out. If countries like Botswana for example had the same kind of wealth as Great Britain, then they would perform much better because they would be able to afford better facilites and help pay for transport of athletes to the games, but yeah, I like to see it when snaller, poorer, countries get medals, in my eyes theyre more meaningful.
@@Azurialls also the athletes have free time and money to spend training, they don't have to spend all their time working and all their money on rent and food, there's also cultural influences on how sports are viewed and what sports you play
New Taipei City used to be Taipei County which surrounded Taipei City. They changed their name a few years ago because they became a "Special municipality". Also there is no "New Taipei" only "New Taipei City", it's just Google Map being wrong.
And if Washington DC ever becomes a state, it’s going to be called Washington, Douglass Commonwealth. So we’ll have two states called Washington. Not confusing at all mate
@@Charles-yi3mx The country formerly known as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia was only given the old name as a provisional name for UN membership until they recently solved the naming dispute with Greece. Pretty much everyone called them just "Macedonia" anyway.
Super cool fun fact: Daniel Dhers (Venezuelan BMX Legend) won silver yesterday, and in his helmet, he used the old (pre-2007) venezuelan flag, which is the same flag except that has 7 starts instead of 8 starts (the chavista flag). Was super subtle but every venezuelan noticed and celebrated it as a symbol of freedom and victory for the real Venezuela.
To add even more confusion. Some athletes compete for countries that they are not from ? Some of these athletes have never been to the country they are competing for ? Some reasons are some nations don't have any one who plays a certain sport. Some athletes did not qualify in there home country so they compete for another nation. So I guess it is a win win situation ? A nation will have someone compete on their behalf ? And a athlete gets to compete that otherwise they would be able too ? But I think it is still odd.
@@vojtechnovacek7776 some countries with very few athletes pay athletes from other countries to compete for their country, like there's a Jamaican athlete who now competes for Bahrain
From the man who host 50 rounds of best country contest forgetting to add Taiwan until the last round, I believe him when he said country is a confusing concept.
Regarding the confusion you experienced over Taipei, keep in mind that you're reading the exonyms of those places, which means the name of the place that your language or country uses. This is different from the endonyms of those places, which are the names the locals use.
Can someone PLEASE explain why, if you type "England Street, London" into Google Maps, it takes you to Mount Pleasant, and there is absolutely no mention of sn actual "England Street" on the map?!!
@@295g295 Sorry - how does 9:45 explain anything? He types in "England Street" and it takes him to Mount Pleasant. That doesn't explain why that happens!
For those of you wondering about Puerto Rico and other US territories, they are legally considered "unincorporated" meaning that they are under the control of the United States, but not entirely a part of the USA.
Toycat: if taiwan wants to become a country it should get it's capital name right Also toycat: ok so there is united kingdom, which is also great britain, and isle of man is a part of it, but it's also not, and england is playing at the olympics, and also scotland and wales, but yes it is a solid country
Bermuda won the women's triathlon, but at the medal ceremony, the British national anthem was played as Bermuda is a British overseas territory, even though it also has its own national anthem.
I find this to be an interesting video! I mean, the name "Chinese Taipei" is already a big enough example of the confusion behind what a "country" is, as well as it's impact on sports! And that's not to mention everything else you mentioned here, plus how some of those "other states" may function somewhat like countries, but aren't in the Olympics!
This was hilarious through and through... As soon as he started talking about Great Britain at the olympics, I was waiting for him to point out european football championship shenanigans - and then he did. :-D England invented the sport, so they reserve the right to win in it on their own, although they're not very successful in that regard. :-P
Different country cultures definitely play into sports they usually win, like the table tennis final was between two Chinese men and women, and like a ridiculous amount of the US medals are in swimming
If things like drugs will be allowed first of all it will destroy the athletes. It will ruin them from things like overdosing to win, not to mention them it won’t come down to who is the best athlete but who has the best drugs.
@@catabc-rd8dy how is it fair that some people are born to be better athletes? Its not really. Now, that doesnt change when we factor in the ability to cope with performance enhancers.
@@catabc-rd8dy What I mean is that its already not fair. You are right, its to see who is the best. That wouldnt change if we allowed doping. We would still be looking for who is the best.
2:59"do you know who these people are, you probably don't" proceeds to name the top athlete of this games in my main/favourite sport followed by a woman who literally went to the school I go to yeah... I think I might've heard of them. Just maybe.
im from seattle and whenever i tell someone "yeah, i'm from washington" they're like, "oh wow, so are you a politician or something?" then i have to explain its the state...
I like all of this, except for when you dog on Taiwan's city names as they do have proper names in their own language and I'm not sure who decides their english names.
The results are a product of the national investments into recruiting and training athletes. During the cold war the GDR used to come in in second place behind the USSR. The countrie had 19 million inhabitants. The system set up to spot tallents and train them was supreme. Germany abandoned it after the reunification and is now barely in the top 10 anymore.
Interestingly, I've never seen a Taiwanese talking about this, but I saw a Cypriot talking about this because they have Republic of Cyprus with same abbreviation
@@meowcat7124 I’m Taiwanese. Most Taiwanese people don’t really want to be called “ROC” anymore, we’d rather just be called Taiwan. We don’t want people confusing us with China.
The list of countries by medals doesn't mean much unless every medal represents each athlete's training involving only the country's traditional diet and domestic facilities and native coaches.
The capital’s name shouldn’t really be an issue. Just look at the USA having Washington DC and Washington state in completely different parts of the country 😅
Yet if I somehow became the king of the USA, I would promptly change one of the names so that the confusion goes away. And then I would rename every city, whose name was stolen from a European one, starting with all the towns called Athens. I would give them some pretty native American names just to annoy the locals.
Toycat forgetting that there is the city called London and within the city called London a city called "The city of London" is also dumb just like Taipei
Toycat only looked at the list of medal winners, rather than the full list of 206 'countries' taking part. Of the 197 sovereign countries (including the likes of Taiwan, Kosovo and Palestine) all but 2 are taking part (with Russia being called ROC), with Vatican City and North Korea being the only absentees. There are 10 non-sovereign territories taking part as follows: Dutch: Aruba British: British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Bermuda US: Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, US Virgin Islands Kiwi: Cook Islands Chinese: Hong Kong In addition to the 195 sovereigen countries taking part and the 10 non-sovereign countries there is one final 'country' taking part, the refugee olympic team, that allows any athlete to be able to choose not to represent the country they are from, for whatever reason, and instead represent a team that is independent of any country, so in effect it is the 'null' country.
You didn't even mention all the confusion with small islands in the Caribbean and the South Pacific that are part of another country (mostly England, France and the Netherlands), but still have their own teams.
Actually of the 31 northern irish athletes 25 represent ireland and 6 represent GB&NI.Its not just about identity ,most of the sports organisations except for football and netball are all island and secondly its easier to get on to the irish than the british team.Usually northern athletes consistently make up a quarter, closer to a fifth this time with 118 athletes in the irish team but thats the largest team we have ever sent out its usually around 100 so the numbers from the north are very consistent.
'Great Britain' is a short version, the official full name of the british committee is "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team". The real question is: why not use 'United Kingdom' for short?
The UK is Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England Great Britain is Wales, Scotland and England The British isles are Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland, England and the Isle of Man I don’t know why I know this but just to point it out 7:12
@@elwinowen5469 I think it depends. For lots of purposes "Great Britain" also includes small islands which are part of England, Wales and Scotland. For example there's been a lot of stuff in the news recently about import procedures between Northern Ireland and Great Britain. You can't get around them by exporting from the Northern Isles. In that context they count as part of Great Britain.
