Naturalized Athletes at the Summer Olympic Games 2016

[DaniSRB 899]

 

 

If i noticed well, all qualified athletes from Bahrain are naturalized 

[dcro 10,210]

5 minutes ago, DaniSRB said:

If i noticed well, all qualified athletes from Bahrain are naturalized 

 

OMG!

 

You almost don't notice them with Azerbaijan and Qatar on headlines. I guess that's because they are not as successful in terms of medals/good results. Also Singapore, who has many Chinese-born athletes, but they are nothing like Bahrain.

[heywoodu 16,435]

8 minutes ago, DaniSRB said:

If i noticed well, all qualified athletes from Bahrain are naturalized 

Correct, every single one of them..

 

By the way, is your plan to create a list here? Because then I'll start

 

Athletics, women's 1500m: Sifan Hassan - Born in Ethopia, representing the Netherlands

Athletics, men's triple jump: Fabian Florant - Born in Dominica, representing the Netherlands

Table tennis, women's singles: Li Jie - Born in China, representing the Netherlands

Table tennis, women's singles: Li Jiao - Born in China, representing the Netherlands

[DaniSRB 899]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

 

OMG!

 

You almost don't notice them with Azerbaijan and Qatar on headlines. I guess that's because they are not as successful in terms of medals/good results. Also Singapore, who has many Chinese-born athletes, but they are nothing like Bahrain.

just found out one was born in Nigeria to Bahraini father (says wiki)

 

but they will have around 25 athletes at least and 99% naturalized 

 

Azerbaijan will have quite big team with good number of sports and also half of them naturalized

 

Qatar even managed to buy team sport 

[DaniSRB 899]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Correct, every single one of them..

 

By the way, is your plan to create a list here? Because then I'll start

 

Athletics, women's 1500m: Sifan Hassan - Born in Ethopia, representing the Netherlands

Athletics, men's triple jump: Fabian Florant - Born in Dominica, representing the Netherlands

Table tennis, women's singles: Li Jie - Born in China, representing the Netherlands

Table tennis, women's singles: Li Jiao - Born in China, representing the Netherlands

no plan.....just to discover biggest cheaters after doping

 

everyone can write their naturalized athletes

As for Serbia we will have +/-3

[DaniSRB 899]

Turkey will also have big naturalized team in athletics and few more other athletes in different sports

[dareza 911]

3 minutes ago, DaniSRB said:

no plan.....just to discover biggest cheaters after doping

 

everyone can write their naturalized athletes

As for Serbia we will have +/-3

or 4 Benedek,Danijela and two more chance (Bedec and Arkady).

[DaniSRB 899]

Just now, dareza said:

or 4 Benedek,Danijela and two more chance (Bedec and Arkady).

that's why i wrote +/-

 

minmum 2 i think and maximum 4

[dcro 10,210]

Also both Palestinians currently qualified are German-born. But you can't blame them, they didn't buy them. Their marathon runner is of Palestinian heritage (and she has Arab name) while their dressage rider is just a great enthusiast.

Edited May 5, 2016 by dcro

[heywoodu 16,435]

12 minutes ago, DaniSRB said:

no plan.....just to discover biggest cheaters after doping

 

everyone can write their naturalized athletes

As for Serbia we will have +/-3

Well of course not every case of naturalized athletes is cheating  

 

But yeah, countries like Bahrain or Azerbaijan who practically get their entire teams together like this...no thanks.