2024 Olympics: New Zealand forgotten at closing ceremony: 'It's not new'

“Even the record harvest is 10 gold medals and 11^H His place in the medal table did not seem to be enough to justify Aotearoa's inclusion on the world stage. The site is annoying. 1News Referring to New Zealand by its Māori name. The day after the closing ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, there was a sense of injustice in the New Zealand media.

In question, the globe-shaped stage at the heart of the Stade de France. The map managed to include many countries, but the ocean surrounding Australia was empty. Continues 1NewsSo far, “Countries similar in size to New Zealand, such as the UK and Japan, are emerging there.”

“The phenomenon is not new” comments Things. In 2018, then-Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern starred in a mini-film on the subject alongside comedian Rhys Darby. The latter, after discovering that New Zealand had disappeared from maps around the world, leads the investigation and believes he has found the culprits: Australia, intent on attracting more tourists; the British, who want to get rid of all the blacks; and French winegrowers, who fear competition from New Zealand.

Forgetting is very common.Wikipedia page And dedicated to that, The Australian site notes 7News. We can read that this omission is probably due to the use of the Mercator projection, a map projection that places Europe at the center of the globe and places New Zealand in the bottom corner of maps, which means that it is sometimes forgotten by cartographers. Thus, the country does not appear, for example, on maps of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, Ikea stores, and board games about pandemics and risks.

In Paris, Tasmania was also absent from the Olympic stage, Notes 7News. So let's hope the IOC has already prepared a written apology to star swimmer Ariarne Titmus.” The athlete from the Australian island state won gold in the 400m freestyle and silver in the 200m freestyle.

New Zealand is not the only country not represented at the Stade de France. A Facebook page called “Awesome Maps” featuring a photo of the closing ceremony has drawn plenty of comments suggesting that New Zealand is not the only one left out. Madagascar, Cuba, the Philippines and Indonesia are also included, notably.