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Originally Posted by Northumbrian
It's correct what he says, but as long as there is a British olympic team as opposed to an English one, then all we'll be doing is scrutinising every broadcaster's comments and adding up the discrepancies, which is not a satisfactory state of affairs.
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I agree with you Northumbrian, but it is worse than that, the double standards of the BBC and other broadcasters have [yet again] been exposed.
It is all unnecessary and quite simple really if - and this is a big 'if' - those in authority truly believed in Britain was a union of separate nations. In the context of the Olympics there should be only one kind of competitor for so called 'Team GB' and references to 'the Brit from Edinburgh' (or London etc) would be quite sufficient and consistent, but oh no, we must never forget that there are Scots, Welsh and Irish because the vast majority of British competitors come from England, even though some of them regard themselves as British muslims etc! The Little Scotlander mindset rules here also!
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