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[Olympian1010 7,971]

1 hour ago, hckošice said:

Two American teams competing in one event. Smart from yuesey, very smart !

 

You already get two Czechoslovak teams in ice hockey 

 

Let us have this 

 

Haudenosaunee includes both “Americans” and “Canadians” by the way.

[Jur 683]

I mean.... why?

 

They are americans so.... have them join the US team as everyone does with the people of their countries

[Cobi 981]

3 hours ago, Jur said:

I mean.... why?

 

They are americans so.... have them join the US team as everyone does with the people of their countries

North-Americans think they deserve special treatment. Nothing new .

 

Hopefully, IOC will not allow that. If you want to compete at the Olympics, get your own NOC.

Edited December 7, 2023 by Cobi

[Josh 10,497]

3 hours ago, Jur said:

I mean.... why?

 

They are americans so.... have them join the US team as everyone does with the people of their countries

Americans & Canadians*

 

Fixed it for you 

[Jur 683]

26 minutes ago, Cobi said:

North-Americans think they deserve special treatment. Nothing new .

 

Hopefully, IOC will not allow that. If you want to compete at the Olympics, get your own NOC.

Exactly, treat you native people with dignity.

 

Imagine if every country would ask for a team of each of they ethnicities.....

[intoronto 5,638]

The ignorance of Europeans here

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[JoshMartini007 2,536]

It sets a dangerous precedent for the IOC to allow them to compete under their flag. Places with sports federations would use it to justify including them at the Olympics. The Faroe Islands and Macao have been dying to get included in the games. It also complicates things that they are spread across two nations so you can't compromise with two Canadian or American teams. While Canada and the United States consider them to be their own quasi-nations the rest of the world does not. Kosovo needed about half the world to recognize it before it was let in.

[Olympian1010 7,971]

5 hours ago, Jur said:

Exactly, treat you native people with dignity.

Something the Spanish always did in the "New World" when they colonized it 

[Jur 683]

3 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Something the Spanish always did in the "New World" when they colonized it 

Almost 400 years before the Indian Removal Act, lmao

 

Are we gonna play that game?

[Olympian1010 7,971]

1 hour ago, Jur said:

Are we gonna play that game?

It is true that my country has done a LOT of shitty things to indigenous peoples. Therefore, giving them representation in a sport born from their culture at an edition in our nation seems like a positive step forward in reconciliation.

 

I get that it’s a complicated situation, but it’s just annoying to see people immediately shutdown the idea and complain about “North Americans” wanting special privileges when so much of international sport is geared towards appeasing Europeans.