We need a Vatican Olympic team where the Pope represents by competing in every event.

@victorviereck4117

2 жыл бұрын

The pope would collapse and die of exhaustion

@CalicoreGaming

2 жыл бұрын

@@victorviereck4117 atleast he would have died representing the people

@LancesArmorStriking

2 жыл бұрын

*Pope Swole II*

@LaFaJe

2 жыл бұрын

Can a win by divine intervention be considered holy doping?

@CalicoreGaming

2 жыл бұрын

@@LaFaJe we'll need a team on this issue immediately to investigate its effectiveness.

I'm fairly certain the Holy See's Olympic team would be greatly amusing, so much so I kinda want to start a petition for them to start one

@d.c.8828

2 жыл бұрын

I think it would be amusing to watch every denomination of Christianity (and other religious denominations) compete to settle the Schism score once and for all!

@PMickeyDee

2 жыл бұрын

@@d.c.8828 hunger games Christianity edition! May the God forever be in your favor

@The0Stroy

2 жыл бұрын

@@PMickeyDee "Kill em all, God will recognize his own"

@brokoblin6284

2 жыл бұрын

A bunch of old men who are surprisingly good

@letheas6175

2 жыл бұрын

The Holy See of Ishgard mabe

"Imagine if there was London, New London and New London City" *Cries in City of London*

@ibx2cat

2 жыл бұрын

Old London city inside new London city

@kobikraft24

2 жыл бұрын

@@ibx2cat why did you say my country had 16 people and some sheep

@kobikraft24

2 жыл бұрын

we have 5 million

@spryleaf9669

2 жыл бұрын

@@kobikraft24 5 million sheep?

@ianprince1698

2 жыл бұрын

I used to live in Lincolnshire( Spalding )where there was a part of the town called Little London

The ROC was formed so Russian athletes could compete at the Olympics, but weren’t allowed to use the Russian flag and anthem due to the scandal

@SatMan18

2 жыл бұрын

Why their anthem is literally best in the world

@ogluglugluglug1305

2 жыл бұрын

@@SatMan18 If you unironically think that, I wholeheartedly believe you've only listened to the Russian Anthem and the United States Anthem.

@MrEliasMarques

2 жыл бұрын

@@ogluglugluglug1305 No no. You did not get it. The Russian anthem is not being played because of the penalty. So they are just flexing the Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 every time an ROC athlete wins.

@gothenmosph5151

2 жыл бұрын

@@ogluglugluglug1305 So what is the best anthem then, if you're such an expert?

@Aaronit0

2 жыл бұрын

@@gothenmosph5151 *ahem* French one of course.

I think there should be 3 Olympics: Olympics, Paralympics and Steroidlympics

@theyakmaster9984

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. Lets see if we can break the 9sec barrier for the 100m, and some other shit

@dylan7476

2 жыл бұрын

@@theyakmaster9984 I would pay so much to watch those sorts of events

@d9zirable

2 жыл бұрын

True peak performance. You combine base stats with the powerups

@craigles7

2 жыл бұрын

@@theyakmaster9984 They have the Steroidlympics. It's called ''The Olympics''.

@theyakmaster9984

2 жыл бұрын

@@craigles7 Thats what Russia thinks its called

It’s weird that countries like the British Virgin Islands can be in the olympics but the Faroe Islands can not

@frederikvater

2 жыл бұрын

Danmark = Færøerne, Danmark = Grønland. Danmark #1 største land i Europa, Rusland tæller ikke. SUPREMACY :D

@Psyk60

2 жыл бұрын

It's basically just because the BVI got in there early enough. If the Faroe Islands had organised their own National Olympic Committee and fielded a team before 1996 then they'd have one now. After 1996 only sovereign nations could join, except any non-sovereign territories which were already members.

@trollinape2697

2 жыл бұрын

yknow whats weirder, I knew this guys channel for like 2 years or 3 and yet just yesterday I found out this is just his second channel

@wolfy704

2 жыл бұрын

@@frederikvater Helt klart det største land i Europa 🇩🇰🇬🇱🇫🇴

@ashleyashleym2969

2 жыл бұрын

They cant be in the Olympics? Are you sure its just not an issue of no athletes? I know my country doesn't always compete because we just dont' have the athletes for it.

As an Indian I will never be surprised by the poor performance of India as we only have like 45 min in the whole week in which we can play at school and at times a random teacher takes that too

@shivanshna7618

2 жыл бұрын

Especially damn math teacher

@leadharsh0616

2 жыл бұрын

@@shivanshna7618 yeah moreover the social stigma (you know the idiom "padhoge likhoge banoge nawab, kheloge kudoge banoge kharab") that parents always see sports as bad and academic performance is all that matters.

@leadharsh0616

2 жыл бұрын

@@shivanshna7618 only few parents support their kids decisions on sports and those are the ones who go to Olympics (we see news that how this athletes mother and that ones father supported them and they thank them). And the same people who are praise them for winning medals discourage their kids to go towards sports.

@shivanshna7618

2 жыл бұрын

@@leadharsh0616 true

@paulli1176

2 жыл бұрын

same as the Chinese kids in90s and 00s , we got like an hour per week, then the math teacher come in and take over

"Imagine if London was like that" You have both London AND City of London...

@ruaraidhrichardson2362

2 жыл бұрын

I was going to comment this. It's worth a video on all the quirks of the City which is somewhat autonomous of the rest of the country.

@smpark12

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that

@champagne.future5248

2 жыл бұрын

Hah that’s true

@henrymarks1632

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I’ve never understood whether I live in London or city of London

@bennettd1209

2 жыл бұрын

And Utah has the Great Salt Lake (i.e. the lake itself), Salt Lake County, Salt Lake City, and the Salt Lake Metropolitan Area. So when someone says they're from "Salt Lake," you end up with a pretty large area to guess from.

As a Taiwanese living in New Taipei City, I have to say... the Isle of Man really sounds like the last bastion of humanity in a post-apocalyptic world.

@UwU-ok2jr

2 жыл бұрын

youre right it really does

5:40 South Africa is even worse in this regard, they have three capital cities, none of which is the largest city in the country.

@pickk90

2 жыл бұрын

Most capital in canada aren't the biggest city too even in their own province and some aren't even close

@Patches2212

2 жыл бұрын

And yet Cape Town, one of the three capitals, is arguably more well known (internationally) compared to the largest city, Johannesburg, despite being smaller.

Maybe the reason powerful countries do so well at the Olympics on average is because they have more built up sporting infrastructure and facilities in order to train the athletes to a higher level compared to less wealthier countries.

@thorthewolf8801

2 жыл бұрын

And dont forget the logistics required for doping

@Ziad3195

2 жыл бұрын

@@thorthewolf8801 what does that mean? Also what is doping?

@el2041

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ziad3195 Doping is the use of drugs like steroids to enhace performance, for example to build bigger muscles, which is forbidden in the Olympics as it gives them an unfair advantage over others

@el2041

2 жыл бұрын

I think more western countries have better facilites, not to get too into politics but, in short theyre richer. Countries like USA, Great Britain and China are bound to do well because of wealth in the way that history has worked out. If countries like Botswana for example had the same kind of wealth as Great Britain, then they would perform much better because they would be able to afford better facilites and help pay for transport of athletes to the games, but yeah, I like to see it when snaller, poorer, countries get medals, in my eyes theyre more meaningful.

@bearbearmo287

2 жыл бұрын

@@el2041 also the athletes have free time and money to spend training, they don't have to spend all their time working and all their money on rent and food, there's also cultural influences on how sports are viewed and what sports you play

The Northern Ireland situation in the olympics also happens with Puerto Rico. Puerto Rican athletes (being technically American citizens) can represent either the United States or participate in the Puerto Rico team. This happens in every international competition where both teams exist.

@frankmcnally5993

2 жыл бұрын

Northern Ireland's people should only be allowed to play in Ireland bc NI is not in GB so it makes no sense playing for team GB but NI is in Ireland

"We don't understand how confusion works." Toy Cat 2021

If Northern Ireland had it's own Olympic team, I'm sure Boris would be like "let's follow Chinese Taipei and call it British Belfast!"

New Taipei City used to be Taipei County which surrounded Taipei City. They changed their name a few years ago because they became a "Special municipality". Also there is no "New Taipei" only "New Taipei City", it's just Google Map being wrong.

@hailsnover6214

2 жыл бұрын

shouldn't it be just New Pei City lol

I'm actually glad we're finally recognised by our new constitutional name instead of just being named FYROM everywhere we went

@doomi4055

2 жыл бұрын

Thk u IOC for recognition for name of North Macedonia in Tokyo 2020

@Charles-yi3mx

2 жыл бұрын

I've never heard anyone say FYROM except in official situations, everyone just said Macedonia

@EpicB

2 жыл бұрын

@@Charles-yi3mx The country formerly known as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia was only given the old name as a provisional name for UN membership until they recently solved the naming dispute with Greece. Pretty much everyone called them just "Macedonia" anyway.

There is a "city of London" within London though, so it is kind of wierd.

Washington state was going to be named Columbia, but it was changed to Washington to avoid confusion with the District of Columbia. Welp, didn't work.

@paradoxmo

2 жыл бұрын

And if Washington DC ever becomes a state, it’s going to be called Washington, Douglass Commonwealth. So we’ll have two states called Washington. Not confusing at all mate

we got through the video without addressing the fact that BERMUDA IS A TEAM, because that makes sense

To add even more confusion. Some athletes compete for countries that they are not from ? Some of these athletes have never been to the country they are competing for ? Some reasons are some nations don't have any one who plays a certain sport. Some athletes did not qualify in there home country so they compete for another nation. So I guess it is a win win situation ? A nation will have someone compete on their behalf ? And a athlete gets to compete that otherwise they would be able too ? But I think it is still odd.

@vojtechnovacek7776

2 жыл бұрын

Can you write an example? I don't think this is possible

@shaniquabobbert6128

2 жыл бұрын

@@vojtechnovacek7776 some countries with very few athletes pay athletes from other countries to compete for their country, like there's a Jamaican athlete who now competes for Bahrain

Super cool fun fact: Daniel Dhers (Venezuelan BMX Legend) won silver yesterday, and in his helmet, he used the old (pre-2007) venezuelan flag, which is the same flag except that has 7 starts instead of 8 starts (the chavista flag). Was super subtle but every venezuelan noticed and celebrated it as a symbol of freedom and victory for the real Venezuela.

Taiwan is doing a really good job this year, so proud to be a Taiwanese🥰there's no need to question if Taiwan a country.

@zbz9842

2 жыл бұрын

Taiwan should be recognized in the Olympics

@hugok3340

2 жыл бұрын

@@zbz9842 unfortunately politics above sports

@duloli3038

2 жыл бұрын

@@hugok3340 It's just sad how big the influence of the CCP is.

@thorthewolf8801

2 жыл бұрын

@@zbz9842 Taiwan should be recognized in the un

@maxthexpfarmer3957

2 жыл бұрын

You are aware that ROC is Russia, right, not Taiwan? I just wanted to say this as I thought it was Taiwan when I first saw it.

From the man who host 50 rounds of best country contest forgetting to add Taiwan until the last round, I believe him when he said country is a confusing concept.

@MrDannyDetail

2 жыл бұрын

And failing to add Kosovo at all, even though Kosovo is recognised by around 98 countries, whilst Taiwan is only recognised by 14.

I love how you use London as an example when there is literally the city of London within London

RE:Taipei: Well there is London city and "The City of London" which is apparently a different thing.

When he said the Vatican City was in the olympics I immediately imagined the Pope trying to do hurdles.

about taipei and london, isnt there a region of london, london the city and the city of london? basically the same thing dont you think?

@flamingspy

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, Greater London (a county), London (a city), City of London (a different city inside London I think)

@bonehand87

2 жыл бұрын

@@flamingspy it’s the same city in the city. It’s just the city part of London.

@flamingspy

2 жыл бұрын

@@bonehand87 yeah I guess so. The definition of city is really weird and nonsensical

Regarding the confusion you experienced over Taipei, keep in mind that you're reading the exonyms of those places, which means the name of the place that your language or country uses. This is different from the endonyms of those places, which are the names the locals use.

Can someone PLEASE explain why, if you type "England Street, London" into Google Maps, it takes you to Mount Pleasant, and there is absolutely no mention of sn actual "England Street" on the map?!!

@295g295

2 жыл бұрын

> 9:45

@gary.h.turner

2 жыл бұрын

@@295g295 Sorry - how does 9:45 explain anything? He types in "England Street" and it takes him to Mount Pleasant. That doesn't explain why that happens!

Puerto Rico is in the Olympics but it's a part of United States of America

@Cybernaut551

2 жыл бұрын

Same with Guam and other U.S. Overseas territories.

Toycat can you make more of those polls, honestly the funniest part of this channel

To be fair we do have London, City of London, and Greater London...

For those of you wondering about Puerto Rico and other US territories, they are legally considered "unincorporated" meaning that they are under the control of the United States, but not entirely a part of the USA.

Toycat: if taiwan wants to become a country it should get it's capital name right Also toycat: ok so there is united kingdom, which is also great britain, and isle of man is a part of it, but it's also not, and england is playing at the olympics, and also scotland and wales, but yes it is a solid country

@anawesomepet

2 жыл бұрын

Wow that is confusing!

5:30 that's rich considering there IS the "City of London" inside London, with it's own bizarre governance.

Bermuda won the women's triathlon, but at the medal ceremony, the British national anthem was played as Bermuda is a British overseas territory, even though it also has its own national anthem.

Bro I love your videos 👏👏

Yeah imagine if there was like a random place in London called the City of London that was separate from London or something crazy like that.

I find this to be an interesting video! I mean, the name "Chinese Taipei" is already a big enough example of the confusion behind what a "country" is, as well as it's impact on sports! And that's not to mention everything else you mentioned here, plus how some of those "other states" may function somewhat like countries, but aren't in the Olympics!

toycat said: screw doping rules. Let's see how fast these mf'ers are

This was hilarious through and through... As soon as he started talking about Great Britain at the olympics, I was waiting for him to point out european football championship shenanigans - and then he did. :-D England invented the sport, so they reserve the right to win in it on their own, although they're not very successful in that regard. :-P

@iStarkillerPT

2 жыл бұрын

what what you taking? they ivented it years ago, dont start geopolotics

Puerto Rico is also participating in the olympics separate from the US.

8:45 PM Aest

These 2cat videos are getting wild

Different country cultures definitely play into sports they usually win, like the table tennis final was between two Chinese men and women, and like a ridiculous amount of the US medals are in swimming

I love your videos !!!!!

It used to be Taipei City and Taipei County, but after Taipei County was upgraded to a city, the original Taipei County became New Taipei City.

Ah, India did just win another medal (bronze) so now we are equal to San Marino.

Hmm I wonder as well why the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was delayed by a year

2:59"do you know who these people are, you probably don't" proceeds to name the top athlete of this games in my main/favourite sport followed by a woman who literally went to the school I go to yeah... I think I might've heard of them. Just maybe.

"We don't understand how confusion works"- Genius!

im from seattle and whenever i tell someone "yeah, i'm from washington" they're like, "oh wow, so are you a politician or something?" then i have to explain its the state...

What ever Toy cat finds interesting we find interesting

If things like drugs will be allowed first of all it will destroy the athletes. It will ruin them from things like overdosing to win, not to mention them it won’t come down to who is the best athlete but who has the best drugs.

@d.c.8828

2 жыл бұрын

No, it will come down to who has the best drugs AND the best tolerance. I think it's fair.

@catabc-rd8dy

2 жыл бұрын

@@d.c.8828 How is that fair?

@thorthewolf8801

2 жыл бұрын

@@catabc-rd8dy how is it fair that some people are born to be better athletes? Its not really. Now, that doesnt change when we factor in the ability to cope with performance enhancers.

@catabc-rd8dy

2 жыл бұрын

@@thorthewolf8801 What do you mean? That's the point of the challenge. Trying to be the best.

@thorthewolf8801

2 жыл бұрын

@@catabc-rd8dy What I mean is that its already not fair. You are right, its to see who is the best. That wouldnt change if we allowed doping. We would still be looking for who is the best.

Toycat - "Imagine if there was London, New London and New London City" City of London, Greater London & London Metropolitan Area exist

Allowing doping would basically force professional athletes to take probably harmful substances...

Thanks for uploading.

New Olympics with everyone on drugs. Let’s see 100m done in 3 seconds

Russia trolling Taiwan.

@meowcat7124

2 жыл бұрын

Interestingly, I've never seen a Taiwanese talking about this, but I saw a Cypriot talking about this because they have Republic of Cyprus with same abbreviation

@paradoxmo

2 жыл бұрын

@@meowcat7124 I’m Taiwanese. Most Taiwanese people don’t really want to be called “ROC” anymore, we’d rather just be called Taiwan. We don’t want people confusing us with China.

Didn't why the hell the island of Bermuda has an Olympic team

The most accurate representation of NZ “16 people and some sheep” 12:15

4:15 one of my teachers made a suggestion like that, but have it in another competition outside the Olympics.

Shocked he missed Bermuda on the medal count each time

@JaredtheRabbit

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr

The list of countries by medals doesn't mean much unless every medal represents each athlete's training involving only the country's traditional diet and domestic facilities and native coaches.

Could you do a video about what the culturel and/or historical Capital of the world would be?

Finally i can now use yt without crashing

The capital’s name shouldn’t really be an issue. Just look at the USA having Washington DC and Washington state in completely different parts of the country 😅

@piotrarturklos

2 жыл бұрын

Yet if I somehow became the king of the USA, I would promptly change one of the names so that the confusion goes away. And then I would rename every city, whose name was stolen from a European one, starting with all the towns called Athens. I would give them some pretty native American names just to annoy the locals.

I also made that mistake with the ROC

I'm now imagining sealand competing in olympic swimming and the issues that would cause.

Alt title: Having a mental breakdown about countries for 16 minutes

The quotes when you said Italian "people" absolutely killed me

Ariana Titmus and Emma McKinney are actually pretty famous in Australia because of how hard they are carrying the country in medals

I like all of this, except for when you dog on Taiwan's city names as they do have proper names in their own language and I'm not sure who decides their english names.

The results are a product of the national investments into recruiting and training athletes. During the cold war the GDR used to come in in second place behind the USSR. The countrie had 19 million inhabitants. The system set up to spot tallents and train them was supreme. Germany abandoned it after the reunification and is now barely in the top 10 anymore.

Northern Ireland actually has a football team but didn't qualify for the Euros

Thanks for reminding me about the Denmark game

Am I the only one completely forgot the Olympics were going on?

@richardnottelmann58

2 жыл бұрын

Nope.

@theyakmaster9984

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@joy-wire

2 жыл бұрын

The duality of man

Ariarne Titmus is all over the Aussie news a fair bit of us know her see a bit of a hero

They should’ve called New Taipei, Type B

Toycat forgetting that there is the city called London and within the city called London a city called "The city of London" is also dumb just like Taipei

Are u in the UK england or great britain?

5:30 but that's kind of how it is. There is London, and there is the city of London. Two separate cities in each other.

ah the uk 3 countries in a trench coat pretending to be an empire

(5:50) Well, you do have Greater London, London, City of London

They should make the Olympics like the hunger games, just pick random people of random ages

Among the 51st, most Americans aren't awake yet

I'm referencing this for my history speech

What countries would be better while swapped with someone else Poland and literally anyone apparently

3:15 This week we can confuse the Russian Olympic Committee - with - the Chinese Taipei Olympic team.

YOOO KAZAKHSTAN BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THX FOR MENTION

Toycat only looked at the list of medal winners, rather than the full list of 206 'countries' taking part. Of the 197 sovereign countries (including the likes of Taiwan, Kosovo and Palestine) all but 2 are taking part (with Russia being called ROC), with Vatican City and North Korea being the only absentees. There are 10 non-sovereign territories taking part as follows: Dutch: Aruba British: British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Bermuda US: Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, US Virgin Islands Kiwi: Cook Islands Chinese: Hong Kong In addition to the 195 sovereigen countries taking part and the 10 non-sovereign countries there is one final 'country' taking part, the refugee olympic team, that allows any athlete to be able to choose not to represent the country they are from, for whatever reason, and instead represent a team that is independent of any country, so in effect it is the 'null' country.

Actually of the 31 northern irish athletes 25 represent ireland and 6 represent GB&NI.Its not just about identity ,most of the sports organisations except for football and netball are all island and secondly its easier to get on to the irish than the british team.Usually northern athletes consistently make up a quarter, closer to a fifth this time with 118 athletes in the irish team but thats the largest team we have ever sent out its usually around 100 so the numbers from the north are very consistent.

Brilliant video as always. As an aside: your accent seems to be going a bit "American". What's going on? 🤔

You didn't even mention all the confusion with small islands in the Caribbean and the South Pacific that are part of another country (mostly England, France and the Netherlands), but still have their own teams.

I hope in my lifetime there is a resident of Vatican City in the olympics

"Please leave us alone, we don't want to die"

Another Confusing Concept is that Hong Kong Competes as a Separate entity yet the Chinese Communist Party anthem was Played after Hong Kong getting the Gold Medal...

@paradoxmo

2 жыл бұрын

Hong Kong having its own Olympic team is grandfathered in from when they were a British colony. Since their anthem changed after the handover, the Chinese anthem is played.

@DanielLopez-up6os

2 жыл бұрын

@@paradoxmo and yet People of Hong Kong during the Anthem chanted: "We are Hong Kong"

Toycat, there are 2 cities in the UK, that can cause confusion. London, and the City of London.

Good to see a man in the corner and google maps iwl

4:10 damn toy cat im surprised you didn't end up an Olympic champion