2024 Olympics New Zealand furious after missing out on Olympics

Anger in New Zealand after closing ceremony Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Sunday evening, while France handed the torch to Los Angeles. And as this Olympic fortnight wrapped up in style, New Zealand media noted that their country was not featured on the giant globe that served as a stage at the heart of the Stade de France, Report our colleagues from International mail .

Countries of similar size are shown.

“Even a record 10 gold medals and 11th place in the medal table did not seem enough to justify Aotearoa (New Zealand's Maori name, editor's note) being included on the world stage.”The site is down 1News.

The map managed to include many countries, but the ocean surrounding Australia was empty.And he continued 1Newsnoting that countries of similar size, such as the United Kingdom or Japan, are already represented on the map.

There is a Wikipedia page about this phenomenon.

“The phenomenon is not new”The media commented ThingsForgetting is very common, according to the Australian website. 7NewswhoAnd a Wikipedia page dedicated to it.According to the latter, this omission is due to “To the widespread use of the Mercator projection, a mapping projection that places Europe at the center and leaves New Zealand in the lower right corner of maps, meaning that it is sometimes not noticed by cartographers.”Thus, the country does not appear, for example, on maps of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, IKEA stores or even board games about pandemics and risks.

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In Paris, Tasmania was also absent from the Olympic stage.male 7News. A Facebook page called “Awesome Maps” He expressed his dismay at the absence of New Zealand. Comments under the post also made it possible to identify other missing countries, such as Madagascar, Cuba, the Philippines and Indonesia.