Don_Dickle to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca • 6 months agoTIL that, not only does every country have an Olympic team, but there is a team for refugees without a country, tooolympics.commessage-square14arrow-up197arrow-down16
arrow-up191arrow-down1external-linkTIL that, not only does every country have an Olympic team, but there is a team for refugees without a country, tooolympics.comDon_Dickle to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca • 6 months agomessage-square14
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•6 months agoThere is a team of athletes who live in Russia, but they’re competing as independent athletes from Russia. They are not representing the Russian government.
minus-squareDon_DickleOPlink-4•6 months agodon’t most athletes don’t represent their government but just re[resent the people of their country?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•6 months agoTechnically they represent their country’s Olympic committee
minus-square@OutsizedWalruslink4•6 months agoThey were largely kicked out the Olympics this year. They have some athletes participating under the “neutral athlete” label. There are not many and it’s much more strict than it had been in the past.
minus-square@njm1314link3•6 months agoWell that’s odd because I haven’t seen them and I’ve been watching Olympics pretty heavily.
uh yeah it does.
There is a team of athletes who live in Russia, but they’re competing as independent athletes from Russia. They are not representing the Russian government.
don’t most athletes don’t represent their government but just re[resent the people of their country?
Technically they represent their country’s Olympic committee
They were largely kicked out the Olympics this year.
They have some athletes participating under the “neutral athlete” label. There are not many and it’s much more strict than it had been in the past.
Well that’s odd because I haven’t seen them and I’ve been watching Olympics pretty heavily.