Football on that normal telly thing

[Coca Fola]

Yeah but UK is much shorter than GB and N.I. and incorporates Northern Ireland anyway. Seems logical.

[Batch]

Why do we compete as Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Olympics and not as the UK?

Basically, its historical that we enter as GBR..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/rogermosey/2009/09/why_team_gb.html1111

But the key points are that we've entered the Olympics as Great Britain since the modern era began in 1896 and the recognised international abbreviation is "GBR".

[Coca Fola]

I see.