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An alphabetical guide to the national codes being used in Tokyo
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People around the world have been struggling out of bed early this week, bleary-eyed, clinging to cups of coffee and scrambling haplessly in the dark in search of the TV remote to catch the latest action from the Tokyo Olympics.
There’s nothing worse than having made all that effort to claw your way out from under the duvet and master the tournament’s chaotic events schedule, only to be confounded by the International Olympic Committee’s tricksy approach to country abbreviations.
All 206 participating nations have been handed a three-letter designation, not all of which are as self-evident as you might hope.
BER for Bermuda and KOS for Kosovo make sense but, rather than RUS, Russia is known as ROC this time around - denoting Russian Olympic Committee - in response to the country’s official ban as a result of 2019 doping scandal that rocked the world of athletics, which nevertheless does not prohibit all Russian athletes from competing.
So, if you’re baffled by who’s representing where in the big women’s judo clash between UZB and CPV this afternoon, the following alphabetical list should help.
CGO Republic of the Congo
COD Democratic Republic of the Congo
FSM Federated States of Micronesia
SKN Saint Kitts and Nevis
STP Sao Tome and Principe
VIN Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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