Is Jakob Ingebritsen's top in the EU champs a violation of sponsorship rules?

The commercial sponsor's logo is larger than the logo of the allocated country. Although they have relaxed the rules recently, I thought the dimensions could not exceed the nation's flag! Can someone correct me?

Or did Gjert just say they would "all be going home" if anyone kicked up a fuss

It's not EU champs, no such thing exist.

We all know that is an abbreviation.

For the European Union.

This is not the european union championships.

I don't know if you live in Europe - and maybe you do - but for a lot of countries here, it's short for the area code, as well as relating to the European Union, Brexit and so on. I'm more than happy to talk about the actual European Union, politics and Brexit (after having being immersed in it for the last who knows how many months) - but on another thread, if you want to start one :)

japierdole!!. could this be what we need to press for retroactive DQs? powodzenia.

I am just curious wrote:

I don't know if you live in Europe - and maybe you do - but for a lot of countries here, it's short for the area code, as well as relating to the European Union, Brexit and so on. I'm more than happy to talk about the actual European Union, politics and Brexit (after having being immersed in it for the last who knows how many months) - but on another thread, if you want to start one :)

Talking about you thinking this is the EU championships is as interesting as you saying Jakob is in violation of sponsorship rules.

EU isn't the area code for Europe by the way as it is far less than half the area of Europe and less than half of the population as far as eligibility for european championships are concerned.

Jakob runs in the norwegian federation jersey with the federation sponsor logo on it.

Any infringement have nothing to do with Jakob.

If you think either topic is disinteresting why did you bring it up - or comment on this thread?

Lots of competitions were called EU - the Euro Cup used to be called EU, years ago the abbreviations were (Eur) or (EU), anyone knows this, I feel you are simply trying to distract from the original topic and derail.

Like I said, more than willing to continue this discussion on another thread.

Hiss top is different to other Norwegian athletes.

I also feel you are viewing it only through your primary language (English - that's obvious from how you type) which is fairly discriminatory.

And also it's interesting - you type in a European language (when you're not European) yet you try to tell us all how to talk.

I am just curious wrote:

I also feel you are viewing it only through your primary language (English - that's obvious from how you type) which is fairly discriminatory.

Sorry. Not native english speaker.

I am just curious wrote:

If you think either topic is disinteresting why did you bring it up - or comment on this thread?

Lots of competitions were called EU - the Euro Cup used to be called EU, years ago the abbreviations were (Eur) or (EU), anyone knows this, I feel you are simply trying to distract from the original topic and derail.

Like I said, more than willing to continue this discussion on another thread.

Hiss top is different to other Norwegian athletes.

Abbrevations for Europe were and is Eur, not EU, never has been.

Euro Cup? You're talking about football (soccer)?

I've heard of Euro Champs, those are held in almost all sports.

Champions League used to be called European Cup.

At no point have any of these competitions ben called EU this or that.

Have a look at his team mate Narås' jersey. It's identical.

Or any other norwegian that has participated.

I only engage because I think your question is stupid in the first place, so I thought I'd point out that the guy asking the question about the rules have no idea what the competition is even called.

But you're very obviously in the USA. Never European. I could make a guess (as to your first language), but I am actually unsure as to whether you're telling the truth, quite honestly. And you're wrong.

https://www.allacronyms.com/europe/abbreviated

Also, you should not assume... but as you've done that over and over, I'll just leave you with the link above.

GOOD thread.. I agree with Buddha, it's not correct to call it the EU champs. And I am European.

Hi sexy. I'll be honest with you (really honest) - I don't really care if it's correct or not in the grand scheme of things. I personally believe (EU) can be used as short-hand for Europe (or European), but that's one opinion. Other stuff bothered me more than whether it was correct - like the way the discussion was handled. Just like I don't care whether JI has a logo on his top that is larger or smaller than the N flag. Just like I don't really care if Gjert has a screaming fit on the track, or has porridge for breakfast.

If I (or any one of us) cared I'd contact EA, or one of the team managers, or the media, or go and post on twitter or something like that. Those options are open to me or to anyone if they wanted to do something about this, but do we do them? No. Because I personally - even though I should not really have to state my position on this and would prefer not to really - would not want to see someone disqualified because of a logo.

I think, however, we all know this:

Anyone who lives in the UK has been utterly bombarded with constant news about the European Union for years now (before Covid). The average person has probably read over 1000 articles on the topic. Most people are familiar with von der Leyen, Boris, Merkel, Macron, some vague bits of the policy (not the full legislation) and so on. There is pretty much zero chance that anyone would watch the athletics and think, oh! I think this is the European Union champs when there are people from Suisse, Turkey, I think I saw someone from Azerbaijan but it was late so IDK and so on trotting all over the track.

Likewise, if anyone has followed athletics for 20-30 years inc. most of the major champs, and it's one of their favorite sports,IDK... I can't even complete this sentence because it's just such a stupid thing that someone would literally think that anyone could think it was the European Union championships. I lived in the European Union for many, many years and I'm well aware of what it is, the member states and so on. And more than aware that this championship is not that. I can't even believe I'm having to write this, but here we are.

It is massively, massively obvious that isn't the case, and it is weird for someone to try to state that. It's ultra obvious, dude, that everyone knows what the competition is called (in fact, I think I said to Greg on another thread 'watch the European Athletics Championships' as a suggestion when he said he was bored).

And the reason why it has annoyed me is because it's someone reading what I wrote and drawing things from it that aren't there. For starters, I never said that JI was in violation of sponsorship rules. Learn to read and comprehend what you read before you make statements that are patently false.

It's just like people are petty little things and want to nitpick on people, and it's really weird. I don't mind it as much with myself as I can learn from it and that benefits me, but I really tend to look down on people who correct OTHER people's spelling and grammar when their language skills (across the board, not in one language) are usually fairly dismal and non-imaginative. Lol, I can't imagine going onto say a board for beginners Spanish and ripping into them for not using correct grammar, but I can truly imagine some of the people on here doing that.

Anyone can use Grammarly and it really lacks imagination to do so. You're writing on a message board not a technical document - people shouldn't be having to look things up, and if you want to write 'ur' that's fine too. Language is not definitive - it evolves and changes. Keep up.

I don't think there are stupid questions (by definition, really), but I do think there are stupid people (like Budda). I also think Budda is very disingenuous, as he or she is pretending to be a non-native English speaker for whatever reason, when I'd hazard a guess they are 1. American 2. Possibly Scottish 3. Possibly Irish. The way he writes/amends his speech with very slight errors is too consistent.

Can confirm.

EU happen to be first two letters, and are used as shorthand for anything with 'European' in the title, completely randomly/ informally and not a soul even thinking about the actual EU. It's an idle or throwaway comment, but it's pretty obvious.

In writing/typing that is, as it's still a bit cumbersome verbally.

Course it's not formally correct - but who gives a rip.

Wow... oh my. I am almost abashed. Someone is actually agreeing with me? I'd expected a really irate reply to all of that! Thanks Dubious Caesur! Thank you.

EU is very commonly used to reference entire Europe. It has to be said in a context where EU actually means European Union to mean European Union.

It's totally normal in sports to say for example EU vs US. It never means just the countries in the EU, but refers to the continent as a whole.

For example:

The EU is considering to add Switzerland to it (here it means European Union, as by context).

In a soccer championship between EU and US teams, the EU teams would likely be superior (here it just means European, and does not refer to the political EU).

The US is a stronger region in basketball than the EU (same as above, means European region in general not the political countries who joined the organization EU).