Even if we go for Team UK that would exclude people as it's not just the UK that represent Britain in the Olympics. The Crown Dependencies of the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey are not parts of the United Kingdom but athletes from there compete for Team GB, as do athletes from the British Overseas Territories, with the exception of the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands and Bermuda who have their own National Olympic Committees.
"Great Britain" is a geographical term, not the name of a country, but to add to the confusion the UK competes in the Olympics as Great Britain. This is a hang-over from Irish independence when the country was split - under Olympic rules, athletes in Northern Ireland have a free choice as to whether to compete for the Republic of Ireland or for the "mainland" UK, and the IOC designated the UK team as "GB".
It's just always been that way. From the first modern Olympics, the British Olympic team has gone by the name Great Britain. That was true even when the team included athletes from pre-independent Ireland.
Because the letters UK are being used for Ukraine, and they don't really have any alternatives, so the British team is called GB, even though it isn't really accurate because of Northern Ireland. Probably considerd a compromise worth making to ease all those published lists of winners, medals, etc.
It's called GBR = Great Britain, because it is the UK and northern Ireland. In other things where they are called UK that's because northern Ireland isn't included then.
It doesn't include Irish people.
Great Britain is Scotland, England and Wales. The United Kingdom is Scotland, England, Wales AND Northern Ireland.
Ireland has it's own team, who, for the record, are doing terribly.
because team gb sounds better but they mean the same thing.
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Nobody like N.I. I guess
it should be called GBLT
