here's the list (it's worse than i thought):
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which_coun..._Olympic_Games
i mean us virgin islands??? hong kong??? palestine???????
the greeks have a way with their sprinters. you would have thought that they would have cleaned them up after the athens fiasco.
what pisses me off is that they are called "countries" by everyone from nbc to to china to the olympic committee when they clearly are not. why don't they just get honest with themselves and admit that numerous oddball associations are allowed to compete? i'm pretty sure that nbc skipped over palestine's entrance last night because i don't recall seeing it and that surely would generate serious ire from many in the us.
Uh-oh, some sort of media bias. Should we re-adjourn on the PPB?
Hey, this isn't the LTE
is the kobe and the bodyguard rumor true?
Brunei is the only of the 205 IOC nations that are not represented at these Olympics.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/olympic...nt_6918214.htm
Last edited by blazindw; 08-09-2008 at 10:28 AM. Reason: link
Google is your friend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunei
A country on Borneo.
It looks like you're just looking for a fight to pick, D8.
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This morning I watched Kobe make his way into the stadium to watch the USA ladies play. He was by himself among a whole crowd of Chinese patting him on the back, taking pictures, and collecting hi fives. The crowd backed off when he got the the seats reserved for athletes. He had some difficulty, but he never stopped smiling.
Seems we are taking an insular attitude about the country member thing. We don't make the IOC rules as to what defines a country. If you don't like it, organize your own Olympics. Gee, that has a familiar ring to it.
They said during the telecast last night, that everyone was expecting Brunei to attend, but they didn't show up, and no-one, as of the Opening Ceremonies, knew why.
As for order of the entrance of countries, besides Greece (always first), and China (as host country, honor of being last), they were in order of number of strokes in the chinese symbols that make up the country name. There is no alphabet. (Again, this was all covered in the NBC telecast.)
Here's what I found in the international Herald Tribune vis-a-vis Brunei not attending:
The IOC excluded Brunei from participating in the opening ceremony of the Beijing Games on Friday because its national Olympic committee failed to register the country's two athletes by the required deadline.
Brunei had until midday Friday to register its two athletes — 15-year-old swimmer Maria Grace Koh and shot putter Mohammed Yazid Yatimi Yusof — with the International Olympic Committee, but missed the deadline.
Brunei's ruler, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, was one of many dignitaries slated to attend the opening, alongside U.S. President George W. Bush and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.