We had the thread last week about the US - a former part of GBR - not being in the Commonwealth.
What about Ireland? ARe they in it?
If not, why not? Weren't they part of you guys once?
We had the thread last week about the US - a former part of GBR - not being in the Commonwealth.
What about Ireland? ARe they in it?
If not, why not? Weren't they part of you guys once?
Ashton Eaton should be allowed to compete as a Canadian because he is married to one. He is there right now but he is not allowed to compete. The Brits are chicken to lose to him by 1000 points.
Bad Wigins wrote:
Ashton Eaton should be allowed to compete as a Canadian because he is married to one. He is there right now but he is not allowed to compete. The Brits are chicken to lose to him by 1000 points.
brits have to make competitions that exclude everyone else except maybe Trinidad and Tobago and Botswanna in order to actually win anything.
not a history major wrote:
What about Ireland? ARe they in it?
If not, why not? Weren't they part of you guys once?
1. You can easily look up this information
2. Because the Irish hate the British and would be insulting themselves if they joined the Commonwealth
2/10
We would rather die than be part of a British organization
Kenya.
I believe the commonwealth games has some form of recognition in which you still have to be competing for the nation you represent. If Ashton all of a sudden decided that Athletics Canada was the better option, he would have to do the same 3 year sit-out that Bernard Lagat went through.
RunWild wrote:
I believe the commonwealth games has some form of recognition in which you still have to be competing for the nation you represent. If Ashton all of a sudden decided that Athletics Canada was the better option, he would have to do the same 3 year sit-out that Bernard Lagat went through.
He would also have to become a Canadian citizen which is by no means a trivial process even if you married a Canadian.
RunWild wrote:
I believe the commonwealth games has some form of recognition in which you still have to be competing for the nation you represent. If Ashton all of a sudden decided that Athletics Canada was the better option, he would have to do the same 3 year sit-out that Bernard Lagat went through.
The spirit of those kind of rules is to prevent their former country from getting ripped off. US has no stake in the CWG.
And a genealogist might be able to get him a Nigerian passport. Regina George competed for the US at world juniors in 2010, and for Nigeria in London in 2012. She didn't have to wait 3 years.
http://makingofchampions.net/2014/06/21/former-americans-dominate-on-day-2-of-nigerian-athletics-championships-a-shocking-new-trend-in-naija-athletics/If Eaton competed he would win not only the decathlon but probably the 400h too. Also that weak lawn-bowling event.
Northern Ireland is competing (as NIR).
According to my Scottish coworker, Ireland and USA are basically the only former British Empire nations which are not members of the Commonwealth.
However, both are eligible to become members.
according to a friend of a friend of a friend who claims to be in the know...
If Scotland votes YES to independence it will make Northern Ireland's position as an independent country quite precarious. And the Nationalists in NI, along with the RoI govt, will seize on the opportunity to to convince the Unionists to accept a Unites Ireland and in return they will offer to rejoin the Commonwealth.
We asked them, but they declined.
700 years of continuous oppression, likely the longest continuous period of oppression of one group over another in human history. Yep, the Irish have a lot of good will towards the English! Take a course in Irish History to discover all the delightful sunny details, of how the English brought their compassionate civilization to Ireland! not
Get over it. That all happened before you were born. Us and the Irish, we're pals, they gave us Father Ted as a token of the new truce (vetoing politics)and we loved it.