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Originally Posted by saffronleaf
While some sports tournaments focus on sovereign states alone, many allow nations within sovereign states to have their own teams in international sports.
We see this a lot with the UK. In some tournaments, they must participate as the UK. But where permitted, they will often participate instead as England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Should Quebec be permitted or encouraged to have its own team in international sports tournaments?
Perhaps Newfoundland, as well?
Would the 'Rest of Canada' team be simply called Canada?
I think Quebec should be permitted and encouraged to have its own national teams, especially in sports where Canada is otherwise strong (like hockey). In a sport we never qualify in, I might prefer we stick together as one team to at least try to qualify into the big tournaments and grow the game (like soccer).
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You've suggested this before, haven't you?
I think that the UK is a fairly unique case, and it generally applies only sports which have their roots there like soccer and rugby (and maybe cricket?). So it mostly exists as a tradition. Kinda like how Greece always enters the Olympic stadium first.