Today I Learned (TIL)

6522 readers

1 users here now

You learn something new every day; what did you learn today?

/c/til is a community for any true knowledge that you would like to share, regardless of topic or of source.

Share your knowledge and experience!

Rules

Information must be true
Follow site rules
No, you don't have to have literally learned the fact today
Posts must be about something you learned

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

TIL that, not only does every country have an Olympic team, but there is a team for refugees without a country, too (olympics.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

14 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

uh yeah it does.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There is a team of athletes who live in Russia, but they're competing as independent athletes from Russia. They are not representing the Russian government.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

don't most athletes don't represent their government but just re[resent the people of their country?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Technically they represent their country's Olympic committee

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

They were largely kicked out the Olympics this year.

They have some athletes participating under the “neutral athlete” label. There are not many and it’s much more strict than it had been in the past.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Well that's odd because I haven't seen them and I've been watching Olympics pretty heavily.