National team? Then sing the National Anthem!

It should be Team UK. The world stopped calling us Great Britain some years ago.

(by the way if the Scots don't like singing The National Anthem Wiki has an alternative verse :

God bless the prince, I pray,
God bless the prince, I pray,
Charlie I mean;
That Scotland we may see
Freed from vile Presbyt'ry,
Both George and his Feckie,
Ever so, Amen.)

I don't think the world stopped calling us Great Britain some years ago. La Grande Bretagne, Grana Bretagna, etc. are all still commonly in use. True that the US tends to refer to Great Britain as England, as in "We're go to visit Scotland in England" but they are not always very smart about world geography. Perhaps the rest of the world that the great in Great Britain is not a compliment but a geographical description, while Brits themselves are sometimes confused about this.

Sorry jeni, I must have been having some kind of hallucination.

I think I read somewhere that Piers Morgan [?] is giving £1000 [?] to GOSH each time one of our team actually sings the National Anthem.

Oh, what a wonderful opportunity to part that odious creep from some of his ill-gotten gains! And in a good cause, too!

annobel you're forgiven![saintly] emoticon

Piers Morgan , just get me started , cannot find anything remotely pleasant about him . He is on CNN when we are in the STates and DD who thinks he"s the bees knees , insists on watching , we are usually in an hotel room so THERE IS NOWHERE TO RUN , NOWHERE TO HIDE [SAD]

Of course, it should be Team UK (we've discussed that earlier) but that doesn't mean Great Britain has ceased to exist as an entity. (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

Piers Morgan is a pretty loathsome individual but it just goes to show that even the worst of us can have some redeeming feature.

ellenaitch how I agree with your husband!! Team games have no place in the Olympics. New sports keep being added and the whole thing has become thoroughly unweildy. It wouldn't hurt to pare things down a little so that perhaps smaller countries would be able to afford to hold the games. The main point is though that individual achievement should be the aim.

Exactly