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Men's 5000m - Irish reps.

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  • #62
    iasc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 287 ✭✭iasc


    http://www.olympics.org.uk/press/pressdetail.asp?boa_press_id=283


    have a read of this while you're loking aorund


  • #63
    ecksor
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    That link seems to back us up.
    Unbeknown to each other both the OCI and BOA have constitutions approved by the IOC acknowledging territorial responsibility for Northern Ireland.

    They talk about maintaining the status quo and the other more recent link you put in confirms the status quo.


  • #64
    iasc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 287 ✭✭iasc


    Dear xxx,
    In reply to your e-mail of 30th August, 2004, the Irish Olympic Team in
    Athens was representative of the 32 counties of Ireland.

    Yours sincerely,
    Barry Holohan,
    Administrator.

    Original Message
    From: <xxx>
    To: <admin@olympic-council.ie>
    Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 2:42 PM
    Subject: Question


    > Hi, I'd just like to have something clarified.
    > Is the Irish team in the Olympics representing the Republic Of Ireland or
    > the island of Ireland...since alot of sports in Ireland are goverened by
    > All-Ireland bodies I was just wondering...thanks
    >
    > rgds xxx
    >
    >


  • #65
    ecksor
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    I don't see anybody disputing that. The disputes have all been purely about who the GB team represents. You yourself showed us that there are two teams with claims of representing athletes from Northern Ireland, Team GB and the Irish Olympic Team.


  • #66
    The Rooster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,642 ✭✭✭The Rooster


    The fact of the matter is that the 6 Counties of Northern Ireland are represented by both Ireland and Great Britain. Any athlete can choose who to represent, and that's the way it been since the 1920's e.g. Wayne McCullough represented Ireland, Mary Peters represented GB.

    For all recent Olympics, when GB have been doing up the Olympic doucmentation, flyers, accreditaiton badges etc., the team has always been called "Great Britain". However, for the Athens Olympics when they produced the documentation the team was called "Great Britain and Northern Ireland".

    Pat Hickey had the proverbial canary about this, and sent letter of complaints to both Britain and the head of the Olympic movement. The reason I know all this is that Hickey was on both George Hook's radio show and Matt Cooper's radio show ranting about it (a number of months ago). I've no idea whether he was successful or not in getting the name changed back to just GB.


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