UKIP MEP hits out at 'secret plans' for EU Olympic team to keep UK off the top spot
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- 27 Dec 2020
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A UKIP MP has hit out at what he says are secret plans to form an EU Olympic team to keep the UK off the top spot.
While Team GB won as many gold medals in Rio as Germany and France combined, the EU 27, which excludes the UK, won 79 medals which would have put them comfortably at the top of the medal table.
MEPS have reportedly held talks about entering an EU super team into the 2036 Olympics.
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UKIP's Bill Etheridge told the Daily Telegraph he believes the campaign is driven by “jealousy” over Team GB’s recent successes in London and Rio.
He said the move was a “crazy EU effort to destroy national identity”.
Eurocrats apparently believe that the 2036 games, which mark 100 years since Hitler tried and failed to use the sporting competition to prove Aryan superiority, would provide the perfect opportunity to show the world the progress made by the EU.
Mr Etheridge said: “There have been quite a lot of conversations about it among other MEPs and it was being taken quite seriously by some of them.
“They were using the word solidarity, which tends to be code for ever closer union. It speaks to their plan to create a united states of Europe.
“I’m almost certain there was some jealousy at Britain’s success in 2012 and 2016, and they want a piece of our success.”
Sports fans were left fuming when a German PR firm printed an “alternative” medals table with a combined EU squad.
According to Bill Etheridge, the UKIP MEP for the West Midlands, there has been some “serious” discussion among MEPs but there is yet to be any formal discussion in the European Parliament.
