[Fluffy]

FIB (wich stands for Bowling International Federation), has recently accepted the Catalonian Bowling Federation as a separete part of the Spanish Bowling Federation. Having the rights of a new country.

This is not the first sport, nor will be the last who acomplises independency. Catalonian sport Federations are constantly trying to separete themselves from their spanish N.O., just the same their goverment is trying fro m the spannish goverment.

They normally use Wales, Scotland and North Ireland as examples claiming to have the same treatment.

It just takes 1 person to acomplish this task, I was told the FIB vicepresident is the president form the catalonian federation.


Bridge has been trying the same for very long, but the EBL and WBF reject it all the time, but how long will they succed?.

Is this happening on other european countries?

[gwnn]

No it's not.

[hrothgar]

gwnn, on Sep 7 2007, 01:20 PM, said:

No it's not.

???

There are any number of well publicized examples where local groups are trying to secede from larger nation states. The dissolution of Yugoslavia is a classic example. However, you also have

1. Chechnya
2. Kurdistan
3. Scotland
4. The Northern League in Italy
5. Quebec (Obviously, this is North America, and things seems to have died down)
6. The Basque region in Spain

this is just off the top of my head

[helene_t]

The only other example I can think of is Greenland and Faroe Islands having their own national selections in some sports. But those are really independant countries, much more so than Catalonia and Scotland.

Even Beligium is (still) one country when it comes to sport.

[gwnn]

hrothgar, on Sep 7 2007, 12:30 PM, said:

gwnn, on Sep 7 2007, 01:20 PM, said:

No it's not.

???

He asked about sports-related cases. I've never heard of the Chechnyan Football Association fighting for its FIFA approval, for instance.

[Gerben42]

But Tibet wants to have a team.