Submitted on Saturday 28th July 2012
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
UK Olympic Team Name
We the people signed below request that the Government changes the name of the British Olympics team from "Team GB" to "Team UK" - Team United Kingdom. Until now the United Kingdom has been named at the Olympic games as "Great Britain", this excludes, in name only Northern Ireland, an integral part of the United Kingdom.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The British Olympic Association (BOA) is responsible for the name ‘Team GB’. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has recognised the British team as ‘GBR’ since its inception, before the addition of Northern Ireland and the creation of the United Kingdom. Consequently, the BOA is proud that GBR is one of only five nations that has competed at every Olympic Games in the modern era.
The BOA state that a team name was created which they believe is marketable across all the territories in the BOA’s jurisdiction. The BOA also took into account that some Olympic sports compete on an all Ireland basis at the Olympic Games which makes it difficult to use ‘United Kingdom’ to describe the Team.
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