{"id":119630,"date":"2026-06-30T18:37:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/119630\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T18:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:37:58","slug":"denmark-urges-ioc-to-recognize-greenland-and-faroe-islands-as-independent-olympic-teams-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/119630\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark urges IOC to recognize Greenland and Faroe Islands as independent Olympic teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) \u2014 Denmark asked the IOC to recognize its territories Greenland and the Faroe Islands as independent Olympic teams, the national parliament said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The parliament published a letter<\/a> urging the International Olympic Committee to recognize the semi-autonomous territories as \u201cindependent National Olympic Committees and to participate in the Olympic Games under their own flags.\u201d<\/p>\n

The revival of a longstanding Olympic proposal previously made 20 years ago comes weeks after Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen formed a new coalition government<\/a>. She has pledged support for Greenland against U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s wish to acquire the island.<\/a><\/p>\n

The IOC recognizes 206 national Olympic bodies, which is 13 more than the United Nations has member states, and is unlikely to support Denmark\u2019s request. <\/p>\n

The Olympic body\u2019s policy since 1996 has been to recognize only independent states, such as Kosovo in 2014<\/a> and South Sudan the next year. The Olympic Charter defines \u201ccountry\u201d as \u201can independent state recognized by the international community.\u201d <\/p>\n

Two biathletes from Greenland<\/a> competed for Denmark at the Milan Cortina Olympics in February.<\/p>\n

The Faroe Islands has competed in qualifying games for international soccer tournaments since the 1992 European Championship and 1994 World Cup.<\/p>\n

The Danish parliament said its presidium\u2019s June 18 letter to the IOC would \u201creflect a clear and current political commitment by Denmark to support enhanced and more equal international participation for both the Faroe Islands and Greenland.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AP Winter Olympics: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) \u2014 Denmark asked the IOC to recognize its territories Greenland and the Faroe Islands as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[5471,26,5923,1157,184,1162,57,3396,5470,2812,1158,135,1161],"class_list":["post-119630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympic-games","tag-denmark","tag-denmark-government","tag-diplomacy","tag-donald-trump","tag-general-news","tag-greenland","tag-mette-frederiksen","tag-olympic-games","tag-olympics","tag-politics","tag-sports","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116840516984751686","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}