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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Captain Calgary (that's my nickname for Jerome Iginla) has played for Team Canada in Hockey. He also has African hermitage. If he had waved an African flag and a Canadian flag at the Olympics, I think that would have been just fine, thank you very much.
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To be picky... there is no such thing as an African flag. But I get your point.
Jarome Arthur-Leigh Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis Iginla was born in Edmonton but his father comes from Nigeria... so I guess, if he wanted to, he'd be waving a Nigerian flag.
But where do you draw the line? What if you were born in Canada but your mother was born in the USA and dad was born in Great Britain? Does that mean you get to run around waving 3 flags? How far back are you allowed to go? To where your grandparents came from? Further still?
If a country has chosen you to represent them at the Olympics you should have the courtesy to only wave that countries flag... no one elses