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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Brand for the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the team that uses the brand, see <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain_at_the_Olympics" title="Great Britain at the Olympics">Great Britain at the Olympics</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1253811603">.mw-parser-output .ib-brand-logo img{background-color:#f8f9fa}</style><table class="infobox hproduct ib-brand"><caption class="infobox-title fn">Team GB</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size ib-brand-logo" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Team-gb-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a3/Team-gb-logo.svg/130px-Team-gb-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="130" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a3/Team-gb-logo.svg/195px-Team-gb-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a3/Team-gb-logo.svg/260px-Team-gb-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="271" data-file-height="369" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Team GB branding from 2012</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Product type</th><td class="infobox-data type">National <a href="/wiki/Sport" title="Sport">sporting</a> <a href="/wiki/Brand" title="Brand">branding</a>, associated merchandising</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner</th><td class="infobox-data brand"><a href="/wiki/British_Olympic_Association" title="British Olympic Association">British Olympic Association</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Crown_Dependencies" title="Crown Dependencies">Crown Dependencies</a><br />All but three <a href="/wiki/British_Overseas_Territories" title="British Overseas Territories">Overseas Territories</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Introduced</th><td class="infobox-data">September 1999</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Registered as a <a href="/wiki/Trademark" title="Trademark">trademark</a> in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Intellectual_Property_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office">United Kingdom</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.teamgb.com">www.teamgb.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Team GB</b> is the <a href="/wiki/Brand_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Brand name">brand name</a> used since 1999 by the <a href="/wiki/British_Olympic_Association" title="British Olympic Association">British Olympic Association</a> (BOA) for their <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain_at_the_Olympics" title="Great Britain at the Olympics">British Olympic team</a>. The brand was developed after <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain_at_the_1996_Summer_Olympics" title="Great Britain at the 1996 Summer Olympics">the nation's poor performance</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics" title="1996 Summer Olympics">1996 Summer Olympics</a>, and is now a <a href="/wiki/Trademark" title="Trademark">trademark</a> of the BOA. It is meant to unify the team as one body, irrespective of each member athlete's particular sport. Officially, the team is the "Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team",<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although athletes from Northern Ireland may opt to compete under the auspices of the <a href="/wiki/Olympic_Federation_of_Ireland" title="Olympic Federation of Ireland">Olympic Federation of Ireland</a> instead. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Team_GB&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The British Olympic Association's director of marketing, Marzena Bogdanowicz, felt that the official and abbreviated names of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic team were a mouthful. She first thought of the 'Team GB' concept in 1996 or 1997, and said: "I went to the <a href="/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics" title="1996 Summer Olympics">games in 1996</a> and the logo at the time was just the lion and the rings, but we weren't strong enough as a brand to just be a lion and the rings. So coming back I wanted to find something that was less of a mouthful, and also had that team feel. We looked at the options and came up with Team GB".<sup id="cite_ref-2008-08-19-guardian_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2008-08-19-guardian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The name was trademarked in September 1999 at the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Intellectual_Property_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office">United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office</a> (UK IPO).<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Branding_strategy">Branding strategy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Team_GB&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Branding strategy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The BOA state that there "is only one Olympic team from Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Team GB. There is not an Olympic swimming team or Olympic rowing team. The individual sports join to become Team GB, the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team."<sup id="cite_ref-teamgb_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-teamgb-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Team GB brand was used as part of a licensing and merchandising strategy following the BOA's athletes success at the <a href="/wiki/2000_Summer_Olympics" title="2000 Summer Olympics">2000 Summer Olympics</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sydney" title="Sydney">Sydney</a>, Australia.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bogdanowicz stated that the BOA wanted to "cement the Team GB brand in the minds of the British public".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Calls_for_renaming">Calls for renaming</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Team_GB&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Calls for renaming"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The team is officially known as the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team.<sup id="cite_ref-teamgb_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-teamgb-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 2009, Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Sports Minister <a href="/wiki/Gregory_Campbell_(politician)" title="Gregory Campbell (politician)">Gregory Campbell</a> suggested that the name should be changed as the abbreviated form was not inclusive enough as it "excludes, and indeed alienates, the people of Northern Ireland".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Campbell's successor, <a href="/wiki/Nelson_McCausland" title="Nelson McCausland">Nelson McCausland</a>, also suggested that an alternative name be found.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A significant complication is that the <a href="/wiki/Olympic_Council_of_Ireland" class="mw-redirect" title="Olympic Council of Ireland">Olympic Council of Ireland</a> (OCI), established in 1920, as the 'Irish Olympic Council', but not admitted by the IOC until June 1922, whilst all of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, claims to represent the whole <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">island of Ireland</a> and not merely the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Republic</a>. The OCI and the BOA have an agreement under which Northern Ireland sportspeople may choose to compete for either team.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The BOA has rejected calls for the name to be changed to Team UK, arguing that neither Team GB nor Team UK are entirely accurate, given that neither term covers all the members of its association, and that Team GB is an "effective <a href="/wiki/Trading_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Trading name">trading name</a> that fitted best with the <a href="/wiki/List_of_IOC_country_codes" title="List of IOC country codes">Olympic identification of GBR</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The existence of a Team GB has been criticised by <a href="/wiki/Welsh_nationalism" title="Welsh nationalism">Welsh</a> and <a href="/wiki/Scottish_nationalists" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish nationalists">Scottish nationalists</a>, advocating for separate <a href="/wiki/Sport_in_Wales#Calls_for_Wales_Olympic_team" title="Sport in Wales">Welsh</a><sup id="cite_ref-:0_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Campaign_for_a_Scottish_Olympic_Team" title="Campaign for a Scottish Olympic Team">Scottish olympic teams</a> instead.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Criticism of specific sport teams representing Great Britain instead of their home nations have also been voiced, especially in association football where the four nations compete separately, and fears a <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain_men%27s_Olympic_football_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Britain men's Olympic football team">GB football team</a> would threaten their separate national football teams.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some Welsh footballers, playing for a GB Olympic football team, did not sing "<a href="/wiki/God_Save_the_Queen" class="mw-redirect" title="God Save the Queen">God Save the Queen</a>", the national anthem used, in 2012, facing some criticism, however the team's manager stated it was a personal decision.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Team_GB&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Team GB branding has been credited with creating a 'team feel', and direct comparisons were made of the performance at the 1996 Olympic Games in which the BOA's representatives won one gold medal, and the 2000 games where Great Britain and Northern Ireland performed under the Team GB name and returned with eleven gold medals.<sup id="cite_ref-2008-08-19-guardian_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2008-08-19-guardian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Comedian and columnist <a href="/wiki/David_Mitchell_(comedian)" title="David Mitchell (comedian)">David Mitchell</a> described the BOA's decision to create a nickname and rebrand their representative team as "capitalism's final victory" and "pathetic", going on to say that anyone who thought rebranding the Olympic squad has helped win more medals "are either morons or they think our athletes are".<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Scottish columnist <a href="/wiki/Gerry_Hassan" title="Gerry Hassan">Gerry Hassan</a> commented that "Team GB represents something which is a fiction and an illusion which doesn't correspond with any political form".<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Victory_parade">Victory parade</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Team_GB&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Victory parade"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Our_Greatest_Team_Parade" title="Our Greatest Team Parade">Our Greatest Team Parade</a></div> <p>A celebratory parade took place on 10 September 2012, commemorating the Olympic and Paralympic Games.<sup id="cite_ref-owen_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-owen-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-London_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-London-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Arms">Arms</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Team_GB&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Arms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="max-width: 100%"> <caption class="nowrap">Coat of arms of Team GB </caption> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 220px;"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:BOA_BPA_Coat_of_Arms.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/BOA_BPA_Coat_of_Arms.svg/220px-BOA_BPA_Coat_of_Arms.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="188" class="mw-file-element" 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title="BadmintonScotland">SCO</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Baseball_Federation" title="British Baseball Federation">Baseball</a></li> <li>Basketball <ul><li><a href="/wiki/British_Basketball" title="British Basketball">GBR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basketball_England" title="Basketball England">ENG</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basketballscotland" title="Basketballscotland">SCO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basketball_Wales" title="Basketball Wales">WAL</a></li></ul></li> <li>Boxing <ul><li><a href="/wiki/British_Boxing_Board_of_Control" title="British Boxing Board of Control">Professional</a></li> <li>Amateur <ul><li><a href="/wiki/GB_Boxing" title="GB Boxing">GBR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/England_Boxing" title="England Boxing">ENG</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Amateur_Boxing_Scotland&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Amateur Boxing Scotland (page does not exist)">SCO</a></li> <li><a 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class="new" title="Surfing England (page does not exist)">ENG</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Surfing_Federation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Scottish Surfing Federation (page does not exist)">SCO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Welsh_Surfing_Federation" title="Welsh Surfing Federation">WAL</a></li></ul></li> <li>Table Tennis <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Table_Tennis_England" title="Table Tennis England">ENG</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Table_Tennis_Scotland&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Table Tennis Scotland (page does not exist)">SCO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Table_Tennis_Association_of_Wales" title="Table Tennis Association of Wales">WAL</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Taekwondo" title="British Taekwondo">Taekwondo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawn_Tennis_Association" title="Lawn Tennis Association">Tennis</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tennis_Scotland" title="Tennis Scotland">SCO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tennis_Wales" 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