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Olympics parade

At the Olympics the UK always parades alphabetically with the G's, and athletics commentators are now refering to the national team as Great Britain And Northern Ireland (when they have enough breath), so I have altered the list to reflect this. Andy G 23:14, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Anyone know about the Isle of Man & Channel Islands? Andy G 01:41, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)

AFAIK, they do not have NOCs, and only compete separately in the Commonwealth Games.

I removed the note about there being a unified Korea team - they did walk together in the opening ceremony, but they still compete as separate teams. sjorford 08:22, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Is this ISO?

Do these match the ISO_3166-1 alpha-3 codes? If so we should add a link 67.86.150.45 13:54, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

No, quite a few of them are different. I've added a link anyway, though, for comparison. sjorford 14:19, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

GBR

This article is explaining what countries the codes stand for. If this was an article explaining the IOC's own private list of countries it would be acceptable to use a made up country name to explain the code, but it's not, it's explaining what countries the code stands for--using a non existant name does not explain that. Joe D (t) 17:30, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It essentially is the IOC's own private list of countries, as many of the entities are not actually countries but compete as such only in the Olympics. Also, just because the IOC shortens the official name "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" differently than most usages doesn't mean that their usage is any more non-existant than the more common shortening. I've revamped the article to show both IOC usage and common usage. -- Jonel | Speak 20:24, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I like the new version, Thanks. Joe D (t) 20:40, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Netherlands Antilles

According to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics the Netherlands Antilles first competed in 1952, not 1960. What was the country code for Netherlands Antilles in 1952?

Also, is it confirmed that their country code is obsolete? Their NOC homepage makes no mention of this (yet). The same is true about the IOC's page -- it still has AHO listed.

Successor states according to the IOC are a mess

The "Historic NOCs" section (whether a historical team is treated as its own thing or subsumed into another team) seems to have a major issue in that the IOC themselves are an unreliable source.

I was trying to conclusively determine whether or not the IOC considered the United Arab Republic to be its own thing or subsumed into Egypt/Syria.

Moustafa Soheim competed for the United Arab Republic in 1960, and his IOC athlete page shows he competed at Rome 1960. The flag depicted there is a placeholder "grey-and-white Olympic rings" flag with no country name - let's say this represents the IOC treating the UAR separate from Egypt.
Osman El-Sayed competed for the United Arab Republic in 1960, and importantly did not compete in either 1964 or 1968 after the United Arab Republic de facto dissolved. His IOC athlete page instead depicts Egypt with Egypt's flag.
Finally, if you go to the IOC's list of Rome 1960 athletes, go to Wrestling, and look up silver medals, you'll find Osman El-Sayed apparently competing for the United Arab Emirates with the UAE's flag! This is obviously a typo on the IOC's end, but it still doesn't square with the first two points above.

Second example:

Toni Breder competed for Saar in Helsinki 1952 and no other games, but his IOC athlete page depicts both the placeholder flag and France (not West Germany).

Third example:

Fanny Durack competed for Australasia in Stockholm 1912. Her IOC athlete page depicts the country code ANZ and the country name "Australia/New Zealand" (with a placeholder flag).
But if you go to the IOC's list of Stockholm 1912 athletes, go to Swimming, and look up gold medals, you'll find Fanny Durack under AUS instead with Australia's flag.

On top of all this, it would be trivial for the IOC to update their site and change everything at any time (I think they've already gone through multiple redesigns). With the way pages dynamically load in parts, archiving all possible changes would be very difficult. There are no collated tables across multiple years, nor PDFs of medal tallies, nor anything else that would be easy to archive and difficult to change retroactively.

I'm not sure how to best deal with this.

Zowayix001 (talk) 08:31, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the way we handle it (see here is correct and makes sense. In short, UAR is counted as Egypt's alternate name and participation, Saar and ANZ should be separate entities. Jmj713 (talk) 16:29, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Did any Syrian athletes compete in 1960? That would be a complication. AnonMoos (talk) 19:40, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]