I think it would be amusing to watch every denomination of Christianity (and other religious denominations) compete to settle the Schism score once and for all!
@@y7va No no. You did not get it. The Russian anthem is not being played because of the penalty. So they are just flexing the Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 every time an ROC athlete wins.
It's basically just because the BVI got in there early enough. If the Faroe Islands had organised their own National Olympic Committee and fielded a team before 1996 then they'd have one now. After 1996 only sovereign nations could join, except any non-sovereign territories which were already members.
They cant be in the Olympics? Are you sure its just not an issue of no athletes? I know my country doesn't always compete because we just dont' have the athletes for it.
As an Indian I will never be surprised by the poor performance of India as we only have like 45 min in the whole week in which we can play at school and at times a random teacher takes that too
@@Snp2024 yeah moreover the social stigma (you know the idiom "padhoge likhoge banoge nawab, kheloge kudoge banoge kharab") that parents always see sports as bad and academic performance is all that matters.
@@Snp2024 only few parents support their kids decisions on sports and those are the ones who go to Olympics (we see news that how this athletes mother and that ones father supported them and they thank them). And the same people who are praise them for winning medals discourage their kids to go towards sports.
As a Taiwanese living in New Taipei City, I have to say... the Isle of Man really sounds like the last bastion of humanity in a post-apocalyptic world.
And yet Cape Town, one of the three capitals, is arguably more well known (internationally) compared to the largest city, Johannesburg, despite being smaller.
And Utah has the Great Salt Lake (i.e. the lake itself), Salt Lake County, Salt Lake City, and the Salt Lake Metropolitan Area. So when someone says they're from "Salt Lake," you end up with a pretty large area to guess from.
The Northern Ireland situation in the olympics also happens with Puerto Rico. Puerto Rican athletes (being technically American citizens) can represent either the United States or participate in the Puerto Rico team. This happens in every international competition where both teams exist.
Maybe the reason powerful countries do so well at the Olympics on average is because they have more built up sporting infrastructure and facilities in order to train the athletes to a higher level compared to less wealthier countries.
@@Nataliah20011 Doping is the use of drugs like steroids to enhace performance, for example to build bigger muscles, which is forbidden in the Olympics as it gives them an unfair advantage over others
I think more western countries have better facilites, not to get too into politics but, in short theyre richer. Countries like USA, Great Britain and China are bound to do well because of wealth in the way that history has worked out. If countries like Botswana for example had the same kind of wealth as Great Britain, then they would perform much better because they would be able to afford better facilites and help pay for transport of athletes to the games, but yeah, I like to see it when snaller, poorer, countries get medals, in my eyes theyre more meaningful.
@@Azurialls also the athletes have free time and money to spend training, they don't have to spend all their time working and all their money on rent and food, there's also cultural influences on how sports are viewed and what sports you play
New Taipei City used to be Taipei County which surrounded Taipei City. They changed their name a few years ago because they became a "Special municipality". Also there is no "New Taipei" only "New Taipei City", it's just Google Map being wrong.
Super cool fun fact: Daniel Dhers (Venezuelan BMX Legend) won silver yesterday, and in his helmet, he used the old (pre-2007) venezuelan flag, which is the same flag except that has 7 starts instead of 8 starts (the chavista flag). Was super subtle but every venezuelan noticed and celebrated it as a symbol of freedom and victory for the real Venezuela.
@@Charles-yi3mx The country formerly known as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia was only given the old name as a provisional name for UN membership until they recently solved the naming dispute with Greece. Pretty much everyone called them just "Macedonia" anyway.
To add even more confusion. Some athletes compete for countries that they are not from ? Some of these athletes have never been to the country they are competing for ? Some reasons are some nations don't have any one who plays a certain sport. Some athletes did not qualify in there home country so they compete for another nation. So I guess it is a win win situation ? A nation will have someone compete on their behalf ? And a athlete gets to compete that otherwise they would be able too ? But I think it is still odd.
@@vojtechnovacek7776 some countries with very few athletes pay athletes from other countries to compete for their country, like there's a Jamaican athlete who now competes for Bahrain
And if Washington DC ever becomes a state, it’s going to be called Washington, Douglass Commonwealth. So we’ll have two states called Washington. Not confusing at all mate
From the man who host 50 rounds of best country contest forgetting to add Taiwan until the last round, I believe him when he said country is a confusing concept.
Regarding the confusion you experienced over Taipei, keep in mind that you're reading the exonyms of those places, which means the name of the place that your language or country uses. This is different from the endonyms of those places, which are the names the locals use.
Bermuda won the women's triathlon, but at the medal ceremony, the British national anthem was played as Bermuda is a British overseas territory, even though it also has its own national anthem.
For those of you wondering about Puerto Rico and other US territories, they are legally considered "unincorporated" meaning that they are under the control of the United States, but not entirely a part of the USA.
Can someone PLEASE explain why, if you type "England Street, London" into Google Maps, it takes you to Mount Pleasant, and there is absolutely no mention of sn actual "England Street" on the map?!!
@@295g295 Sorry - how does 9:45 explain anything? He types in "England Street" and it takes him to Mount Pleasant. That doesn't explain why that happens!
2:59"do you know who these people are, you probably don't" proceeds to name the top athlete of this games in my main/favourite sport followed by a woman who literally went to the school I go to yeah... I think I might've heard of them. Just maybe.
Toycat: if taiwan wants to become a country it should get it's capital name right Also toycat: ok so there is united kingdom, which is also great britain, and isle of man is a part of it, but it's also not, and england is playing at the olympics, and also scotland and wales, but yes it is a solid country
*Isle Of Man* should be the 5th Constituate Country of *The UK 🇬🇧.* It's clear, officially *The Crown Dependency of Isle Of Man,* it's in the name, they need to be unionized as their own entity to satisfy both sides of union & independance/autonomy supporters.
I find this to be an interesting video! I mean, the name "Chinese Taipei" is already a big enough example of the confusion behind what a "country" is, as well as it's impact on sports! And that's not to mention everything else you mentioned here, plus how some of those "other states" may function somewhat like countries, but aren't in the Olympics!
im from seattle and whenever i tell someone "yeah, i'm from washington" they're like, "oh wow, so are you a politician or something?" then i have to explain its the state...
If things like drugs will be allowed first of all it will destroy the athletes. It will ruin them from things like overdosing to win, not to mention them it won’t come down to who is the best athlete but who has the best drugs.
@@catabc-rd8dy how is it fair that some people are born to be better athletes? Its not really. Now, that doesnt change when we factor in the ability to cope with performance enhancers.
@@catabc-rd8dy What I mean is that its already not fair. You are right, its to see who is the best. That wouldnt change if we allowed doping. We would still be looking for who is the best.
The results are a product of the national investments into recruiting and training athletes. During the cold war the GDR used to come in in second place behind the USSR. The countrie had 19 million inhabitants. The system set up to spot tallents and train them was supreme. Germany abandoned it after the reunification and is now barely in the top 10 anymore.
This was hilarious through and through... As soon as he started talking about Great Britain at the olympics, I was waiting for him to point out european football championship shenanigans - and then he did. :-D England invented the sport, so they reserve the right to win in it on their own, although they're not very successful in that regard. :-P
The list of countries by medals doesn't mean much unless every medal represents each athlete's training involving only the country's traditional diet and domestic facilities and native coaches.
4:17 I feel like this would encourage unhealthy amounts of stereoids being used in the sport resulting in many athletes pushing the limits until somebody dies from an overdose or something...
Actually of the 31 northern irish athletes 25 represent ireland and 6 represent GB&NI.Its not just about identity ,most of the sports organisations except for football and netball are all island and secondly its easier to get on to the irish than the british team.Usually northern athletes consistently make up a quarter, closer to a fifth this time with 118 athletes in the irish team but thats the largest team we have ever sent out its usually around 100 so the numbers from the north are very consistent.
Toycat only looked at the list of medal winners, rather than the full list of 206 'countries' taking part. Of the 197 sovereign countries (including the likes of Taiwan, Kosovo and Palestine) all but 2 are taking part (with Russia being called ROC), with Vatican City and North Korea being the only absentees. There are 10 non-sovereign territories taking part as follows: Dutch: Aruba British: British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Bermuda US: Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, US Virgin Islands Kiwi: Cook Islands Chinese: Hong Kong In addition to the 195 sovereigen countries taking part and the 10 non-sovereign countries there is one final 'country' taking part, the refugee olympic team, that allows any athlete to be able to choose not to represent the country they are from, for whatever reason, and instead represent a team that is independent of any country, so in effect it is the 'null' country.
I like all of this, except for when you dog on Taiwan's city names as they do have proper names in their own language and I'm not sure who decides their english names.
Toycat forgetting that there is the city called London and within the city called London a city called "The city of London" is also dumb just like Taipei
'Great Britain' is a short version, the official full name of the british committee is "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team". The real question is: why not use 'United Kingdom' for short?
The capital’s name shouldn’t really be an issue. Just look at the USA having Washington DC and Washington state in completely different parts of the country 😅
Yet if I somehow became the king of the USA, I would promptly change one of the names so that the confusion goes away. And then I would rename every city, whose name was stolen from a European one, starting with all the towns called Athens. I would give them some pretty native American names just to annoy the locals.
The UK is Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England Great Britain is Wales, Scotland and England The British isles are Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland, England and the Isle of Man I don’t know why I know this but just to point it out 7:12
@@elwinowen5469 I think it depends. For lots of purposes "Great Britain" also includes small islands which are part of England, Wales and Scotland. For example there's been a lot of stuff in the news recently about import procedures between Northern Ireland and Great Britain. You can't get around them by exporting from the Northern Isles. In that context they count as part of Great Britain.
In Soccer/football competitions such as UEFA and FIFA cups national football associations compete, not countries per se. And as the 4 british nations predate FIFA, they all compete separated, although it's not that clear why they still do it since other than England, the other nations suck pretty bad at the sport and rarely make it to the world cup.
But countries dont compete in Olympics or football World Cup, but assosiations or governing bodies. For example in rugby both Irelands play under 1 team.
You just simply don't know the athletes cu you are like most other people not into sports, if you are interested in weightlifting for example you'll most definitely know most of the athletes same is with any other sport, i don't understand why you are ranting about not knowing the who the athletes are
Both codes of rugby also get confusing with British nations. Rugby league has teams for Ireland, England, Wales and Scotland, but also has a GB team sometimes that tours sometimes and is just England in a different shirt. Union is even worse, they have those too but their GB team is the British and Irish Lions. Like mate just pick one pls
Doping is not a cool thing because certain amounts of doping will significantly shorten your lifespan and we'll be at the point where to even compete at the Olympics you have to sacrifice your life. That's actually pretty epic from a spectator's point of view but not if you want to compete.
9:10 the Euro 2020 and the olympics got delayed 'cause the coronavirus, 10:51 Northen Ireland has their own team they just failed to qualify the Euro 2020
We need a Vatican Olympic team where the Pope represents by competing in every event.
The pope would collapse and die of exhaustion
@@victorviereck4117 atleast he would have died representing the people
*Pope Swole II*
Can a win by divine intervention be considered holy doping?
@@LaFaJe we'll need a team on this issue immediately to investigate its effectiveness.
I'm fairly certain the Holy See's Olympic team would be greatly amusing, so much so I kinda want to start a petition for them to start one
I think it would be amusing to watch every denomination of Christianity (and other religious denominations) compete to settle the Schism score once and for all!
@@d.c.8828 hunger games Christianity edition! May the God forever be in your favor
@@PMickeyDee "Kill em all, God will recognize his own"
A bunch of old men who are surprisingly good
The Holy See of Ishgard mabe
The ROC was formed so Russian athletes could compete at the Olympics, but weren’t allowed to use the Russian flag and anthem due to the scandal
Why their anthem is literally best in the world
@@SatMan18 If you unironically think that, I wholeheartedly believe you've only listened to the Russian Anthem and the United States Anthem.
@@y7va No no. You did not get it. The Russian anthem is not being played because of the penalty. So they are just flexing the Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 every time an ROC athlete wins.
@@y7va So what is the best anthem then, if you're such an expert?
@@gothenmosph5151 *ahem* French one of course.
"Imagine if there was London, New London and New London City"
*Cries in City of London*
Old London city inside new London city
@@ibx2cat why did you say my country had 16 people and some sheep
we have 5 million
@@kobikraft24 5 million sheep?
I used to live in Lincolnshire( Spalding )where there was a part of the town called Little London
It’s weird that countries like the British Virgin Islands can be in the olympics but the Faroe Islands can not
Danmark = Færøerne, Danmark = Grønland. Danmark #1 største land i Europa, Rusland tæller ikke. SUPREMACY :D
It's basically just because the BVI got in there early enough. If the Faroe Islands had organised their own National Olympic Committee and fielded a team before 1996 then they'd have one now. After 1996 only sovereign nations could join, except any non-sovereign territories which were already members.
yknow whats weirder, I knew this guys channel for like 2 years or 3 and yet just yesterday I found out this is just his second channel
@@frederikvater Helt klart det største land i Europa 🇩🇰🇬🇱🇫🇴
They cant be in the Olympics? Are you sure its just not an issue of no athletes? I know my country doesn't always compete because we just dont' have the athletes for it.
As an Indian I will never be surprised by the poor performance of India as we only have like 45 min in the whole week in which we can play at school and at times a random teacher takes that too
Especially damn math teacher
@@Snp2024 yeah moreover the social stigma (you know the idiom "padhoge likhoge banoge nawab, kheloge kudoge banoge kharab") that parents always see sports as bad and academic performance is all that matters.
@@Snp2024 only few parents support their kids decisions on sports and those are the ones who go to Olympics (we see news that how this athletes mother and that ones father supported them and they thank them). And the same people who are praise them for winning medals discourage their kids to go towards sports.
@@leadharsh0616 true
same as the Chinese kids in90s and 00s , we got like an hour per week, then the math teacher come in and take over
I think there should be 3 Olympics: Olympics, Paralympics and Steroidlympics
Yes. Lets see if we can break the 9sec barrier for the 100m, and some other shit
@@theyakmaster9984 I would pay so much to watch those sorts of events
True peak performance. You combine base stats with the powerups
@@theyakmaster9984 They have the Steroidlympics. It's called ''The Olympics''.
@@craigles7 Thats what Russia thinks its called
As a Taiwanese living in New Taipei City, I have to say... the Isle of Man really sounds like the last bastion of humanity in a post-apocalyptic world.
youre right it really does
5:40
South Africa is even worse in this regard, they have three capital cities, none of which is the largest city in the country.
Most capital in canada aren't the biggest city too even in their own province and some aren't even close
And yet Cape Town, one of the three capitals, is arguably more well known (internationally) compared to the largest city, Johannesburg, despite being smaller.
"Imagine if London was like that"
You have both London AND City of London...
I was going to comment this. It's worth a video on all the quirks of the City which is somewhat autonomous of the rest of the country.
I was thinking that
Hah that’s true
Yeah I’ve never understood whether I live in London or city of London
And Utah has the Great Salt Lake (i.e. the lake itself), Salt Lake County, Salt Lake City, and the Salt Lake Metropolitan Area. So when someone says they're from "Salt Lake," you end up with a pretty large area to guess from.
The Northern Ireland situation in the olympics also happens with Puerto Rico. Puerto Rican athletes (being technically American citizens) can represent either the United States or participate in the Puerto Rico team. This happens in every international competition where both teams exist.
Northern Ireland's people should only be allowed to play in Ireland bc NI is not in GB so it makes no sense playing for team GB but NI is in Ireland
Maybe the reason powerful countries do so well at the Olympics on average is because they have more built up sporting infrastructure and facilities in order to train the athletes to a higher level compared to less wealthier countries.
And dont forget the logistics required for doping
@@thorthewolf8801 what does that mean? Also what is doping?
@@Nataliah20011 Doping is the use of drugs like steroids to enhace performance, for example to build bigger muscles, which is forbidden in the Olympics as it gives them an unfair advantage over others
I think more western countries have better facilites, not to get too into politics but, in short theyre richer. Countries like USA, Great Britain and China are bound to do well because of wealth in the way that history has worked out. If countries like Botswana for example had the same kind of wealth as Great Britain, then they would perform much better because they would be able to afford better facilites and help pay for transport of athletes to the games, but yeah, I like to see it when snaller, poorer, countries get medals, in my eyes theyre more meaningful.
@@Azurialls also the athletes have free time and money to spend training, they don't have to spend all their time working and all their money on rent and food, there's also cultural influences on how sports are viewed and what sports you play
"We don't understand how confusion works." Toy Cat 2021
If Northern Ireland had it's own Olympic team, I'm sure Boris would be like "let's follow Chinese Taipei and call it British Belfast!"
New Taipei City used to be Taipei County which surrounded Taipei City. They changed their name a few years ago because they became a "Special municipality". Also there is no "New Taipei" only "New Taipei City", it's just Google Map being wrong.
shouldn't it be just New Pei City lol
Super cool fun fact: Daniel Dhers (Venezuelan BMX Legend) won silver yesterday, and in his helmet, he used the old (pre-2007) venezuelan flag, which is the same flag except that has 7 starts instead of 8 starts (the chavista flag). Was super subtle but every venezuelan noticed and celebrated it as a symbol of freedom and victory for the real Venezuela.
I'm actually glad we're finally recognised by our new constitutional name instead of just being named FYROM everywhere we went
Thk u IOC for recognition for name of North Macedonia in Tokyo 2020
I've never heard anyone say FYROM except in official situations, everyone just said Macedonia
@@Charles-yi3mx The country formerly known as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia was only given the old name as a provisional name for UN membership until they recently solved the naming dispute with Greece. Pretty much everyone called them just "Macedonia" anyway.
There is a "city of London" within London though, so it is kind of wierd.
To add even more confusion. Some athletes compete for countries that they are not from ? Some of these athletes have never been to the country they are competing for ? Some reasons are some nations don't have any one who plays a certain sport. Some athletes did not qualify in there home country so they compete for another nation. So I guess it is a win win situation ? A nation will have someone compete on their behalf ? And a athlete gets to compete that otherwise they would be able too ? But I think it is still odd.
Can you write an example? I don't think this is possible
@@vojtechnovacek7776 some countries with very few athletes pay athletes from other countries to compete for their country, like there's a Jamaican athlete who now competes for Bahrain
we got through the video without addressing the fact that BERMUDA IS A TEAM, because that makes sense
Washington state was going to be named Columbia, but it was changed to Washington to avoid confusion with the District of Columbia. Welp, didn't work.
And if Washington DC ever becomes a state, it’s going to be called Washington, Douglass Commonwealth. So we’ll have two states called Washington. Not confusing at all mate
RE:Taipei: Well there is London city and "The City of London" which is apparently a different thing.
From the man who host 50 rounds of best country contest forgetting to add Taiwan until the last round, I believe him when he said country is a confusing concept.
And failing to add Kosovo at all, even though Kosovo is recognised by around 98 countries, whilst Taiwan is only recognised by 14.
I love how you use London as an example when there is literally the city of London within London
Taiwan is doing a really good job this year, so proud to be a Taiwanese🥰there's no need to question if Taiwan a country.
Taiwan should be recognized in the Olympics
@@zbz9842 unfortunately politics above sports
@@hugok3340 It's just sad how big the influence of the CCP is.
@@zbz9842 Taiwan should be recognized in the un
You are aware that ROC is Russia, right, not Taiwan? I just wanted to say this as I thought it was Taiwan when I first saw it.
5:30 that's rich considering there IS the "City of London" inside London, with it's own bizarre governance.
Regarding the confusion you experienced over Taipei, keep in mind that you're reading the exonyms of those places, which means the name of the place that your language or country uses. This is different from the endonyms of those places, which are the names the locals use.
When he said the Vatican City was in the olympics I immediately imagined the Pope trying to do hurdles.
Bermuda won the women's triathlon, but at the medal ceremony, the British national anthem was played as Bermuda is a British overseas territory, even though it also has its own national anthem.
about taipei and london, isnt there a region of london, london the city and the city of london? basically the same thing dont you think?
Yes, Greater London (a county), London (a city), City of London (a different city inside London I think)
@@flamingspy it’s the same city in the city. It’s just the city part of London.
@@bonehand87 yeah I guess so. The definition of city is really weird and nonsensical
For those of you wondering about Puerto Rico and other US territories, they are legally considered "unincorporated" meaning that they are under the control of the United States, but not entirely a part of the USA.
Can someone PLEASE explain why, if you type "England Street, London" into Google Maps, it takes you to Mount Pleasant, and there is absolutely no mention of sn actual "England Street" on the map?!!
> 9:45
@@295g295 Sorry - how does 9:45 explain anything? He types in "England Street" and it takes him to Mount Pleasant. That doesn't explain why that happens!
2:59"do you know who these people are, you probably don't"
proceeds to name the top athlete of this games in my main/favourite sport followed by a woman who literally went to the school I go to
yeah... I think I might've heard of them. Just maybe.
Allowing doping would basically force professional athletes to take probably harmful substances...
toycat said: screw doping rules. Let's see how fast these mf'ers are
To be fair we do have London, City of London, and Greater London...
Yeah imagine if there was like a random place in London called the City of London that was separate from London or something crazy like that.
Toycat: if taiwan wants to become a country it should get it's capital name right
Also toycat: ok so there is united kingdom, which is also great britain, and isle of man is a part of it, but it's also not, and england is playing at the olympics, and also scotland and wales, but yes it is a solid country
Wow that is confusing!
*Isle Of Man* should be the 5th Constituate Country of *The UK 🇬🇧.*
It's clear, officially *The Crown Dependency of Isle Of Man,* it's in the name, they need to be unionized as their own entity to satisfy both sides of union & independance/autonomy supporters.
I find this to be an interesting video! I mean, the name "Chinese Taipei" is already a big enough example of the confusion behind what a "country" is, as well as it's impact on sports! And that's not to mention everything else you mentioned here, plus how some of those "other states" may function somewhat like countries, but aren't in the Olympics!
im from seattle and whenever i tell someone "yeah, i'm from washington" they're like, "oh wow, so are you a politician or something?" then i have to explain its the state...
It used to be Taipei City and Taipei County, but after Taipei County was upgraded to a city, the original Taipei County became New Taipei City.
4:15 one of my teachers made a suggestion like that, but have it in another competition outside the Olympics.
Puerto Rico is in the Olympics but it's a part of United States of America
Same with Guam and other U.S. Overseas territories.
The most accurate representation of NZ “16 people and some sheep” 12:15
5:30 but that's kind of how it is. There is London, and there is the city of London. Two separate cities in each other.
If things like drugs will be allowed first of all it will destroy the athletes. It will ruin them from things like overdosing to win, not to mention them it won’t come down to who is the best athlete but who has the best drugs.
No, it will come down to who has the best drugs AND the best tolerance. I think it's fair.
@@d.c.8828 How is that fair?
@@catabc-rd8dy how is it fair that some people are born to be better athletes? Its not really. Now, that doesnt change when we factor in the ability to cope with performance enhancers.
@@thorthewolf8801 What do you mean? That's the point of the challenge. Trying to be the best.
@@catabc-rd8dy What I mean is that its already not fair. You are right, its to see who is the best. That wouldnt change if we allowed doping. We would still be looking for who is the best.
New Olympics with everyone on drugs. Let’s see 100m done in 3 seconds
Alt title: Having a mental breakdown about countries for 16 minutes
Toycat - "Imagine if there was London, New London and New London City"
City of London, Greater London & London Metropolitan Area exist
What ever Toy cat finds interesting we find interesting
The results are a product of the national investments into recruiting and training athletes.
During the cold war the GDR used to come in in second place behind the USSR. The countrie had 19 million inhabitants. The system set up to spot tallents and train them was supreme.
Germany abandoned it after the reunification and is now barely in the top 10 anymore.
"We don't understand how confusion works"- Genius!
Hmm I wonder as well why the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was delayed by a year
This was hilarious through and through... As soon as he started talking about Great Britain at the olympics, I was waiting for him to point out european football championship shenanigans - and then he did. :-D England invented the sport, so they reserve the right to win in it on their own, although they're not very successful in that regard. :-P
what what you taking? they ivented it years ago, dont start geopolotics
Ah, India did just win another medal (bronze) so now we are equal to San Marino.
These 2cat videos are getting wild
Puerto Rico is also participating in the olympics separate from the US.
Didn't why the hell the island of Bermuda has an Olympic team
The list of countries by medals doesn't mean much unless every medal represents each athlete's training involving only the country's traditional diet and domestic facilities and native coaches.
Bro I love your videos 👏👏
4:17 I feel like this would encourage unhealthy amounts of stereoids being used in the sport resulting in many athletes pushing the limits until somebody dies from an overdose or something...
Toycat can you make more of those polls, honestly the funniest part of this channel
Shocked he missed Bermuda on the medal count each time
Ikr
Ariana Titmus and Emma McKinney are actually pretty famous in Australia because of how hard they are carrying the country in medals
Are u in the UK england or great britain?
Actually of the 31 northern irish athletes 25 represent ireland and 6 represent GB&NI.Its not just about identity ,most of the sports organisations except for football and netball are all island and secondly its easier to get on to the irish than the british team.Usually northern athletes consistently make up a quarter, closer to a fifth this time with 118 athletes in the irish team but thats the largest team we have ever sent out its usually around 100 so the numbers from the north are very consistent.
8:45 PM Aest
Northern Ireland actually has a football team but didn't qualify for the Euros
They should make the Olympics like the hunger games, just pick random people of random ages
Toycat only looked at the list of medal winners, rather than the full list of 206 'countries' taking part. Of the 197 sovereign countries (including the likes of Taiwan, Kosovo and Palestine) all but 2 are taking part (with Russia being called ROC), with Vatican City and North Korea being the only absentees.
There are 10 non-sovereign territories taking part as follows:
Dutch: Aruba
British: British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Bermuda
US: Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, US Virgin Islands
Kiwi: Cook Islands
Chinese: Hong Kong
In addition to the 195 sovereigen countries taking part and the 10 non-sovereign countries there is one final 'country' taking part, the refugee olympic team, that allows any athlete to be able to choose not to represent the country they are from, for whatever reason, and instead represent a team that is independent of any country, so in effect it is the 'null' country.
Could you do a video about what the culturel and/or historical Capital of the world would be?
15:50 - switch Netherlands and Nepal? Are these the lowest and highest average elevation countries?
I like all of this, except for when you dog on Taiwan's city names as they do have proper names in their own language and I'm not sure who decides their english names.
(5:50) Well, you do have Greater London, London, City of London
Among the 51st, most Americans aren't awake yet
Toycat forgetting that there is the city called London and within the city called London a city called "The city of London" is also dumb just like Taipei
Ariarne Titmus is all over the Aussie news a fair bit of us know her see a bit of a hero
I also made that mistake with the ROC
5:42 "we just named 2 things after president, because we're dumb"
Best explanation of US toponimi that I've ever heard!
The quotes when you said Italian "people" absolutely killed me
'Great Britain' is a short version, the official full name of the british committee is "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team". The real question is: why not use 'United Kingdom' for short?
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4:11 it's just like using a hack client in minecraft. if you wouldn't get banned for it then everyone would be using it like on anarchy servers
The capital’s name shouldn’t really be an issue. Just look at the USA having Washington DC and Washington state in completely different parts of the country 😅
Yet if I somehow became the king of the USA, I would promptly change one of the names so that the confusion goes away. And then I would rename every city, whose name was stolen from a European one, starting with all the towns called Athens. I would give them some pretty native American names just to annoy the locals.
The UK is Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England
Great Britain is Wales, Scotland and England
The British isles are Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland, England and the Isle of Man
I don’t know why I know this but just to point it out
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Technically, Great Britain is an island, so it doesn't include the Northern Isles even though they are part of Scotland.
@@elwinowen5469 I think it depends. For lots of purposes "Great Britain" also includes small islands which are part of England, Wales and Scotland. For example there's been a lot of stuff in the news recently about import procedures between Northern Ireland and Great Britain. You can't get around them by exporting from the Northern Isles. In that context they count as part of Great Britain.
In Soccer/football competitions such as UEFA and FIFA cups national football associations compete, not countries per se. And as the 4 british nations predate FIFA, they all compete separated, although it's not that clear why they still do it since other than England, the other nations suck pretty bad at the sport and rarely make it to the world cup.
4:10 damn toy cat im surprised you didn't end up an Olympic champion
I find it remarkable that performance enhancing drugs are banned but high intensity training is just fine.
But countries dont compete in Olympics or football World Cup, but assosiations or governing bodies. For example in rugby both Irelands play under 1 team.
I'm now imagining sealand competing in olympic swimming and the issues that would cause.
On maps, go to Australia, the point where western Australia, south Australia and northern territory meet. WA doesn't have a straight border
New Taipei is confusing? What about City of London?
The city of London is inside London the city which is roughly the same area as London the county
Haha us Taiwanese people are taking over these comments
You just simply don't know the athletes cu you are like most other people not into sports, if you are interested in weightlifting for example you'll most definitely know most of the athletes same is with any other sport, i don't understand why you are ranting about not knowing the who the athletes are
Both codes of rugby also get confusing with British nations. Rugby league has teams for Ireland, England, Wales and Scotland, but also has a GB team sometimes that tours sometimes and is just England in a different shirt. Union is even worse, they have those too but their GB team is the British and Irish Lions. Like mate just pick one pls
Toycat, there are 2 cities in the UK, that can cause confusion.
London, and the City of London.
What countries would be better while swapped with someone else
Poland and literally anyone apparently
They should’ve called New Taipei, Type B
Doping is not a cool thing because certain amounts of doping will significantly shorten your lifespan and we'll be at the point where to even compete at the Olympics you have to sacrifice your life. That's actually pretty epic from a spectator's point of view but not if you want to compete.
9:10 the Euro 2020 and the olympics got delayed 'cause the coronavirus, 10:51 Northen Ireland has their own team they just failed to qualify the Euro 2020
he was joking