Because, technically, there are no nations at the Olympic games, just representatives of all of the National Olympic Committees (NOCs). These usually, but not always, align with actual nations.

So, there are no NOCs for the constituent nations of the UK and the NOC is called ‘GB and Northern Ireland’ for complicated historical reasons.

Other oddities include teams like the Cook Islands, which are part of NZ but have their own NOC, Aruba, which is technically the Netherlands, the United States Virgin Islands and Hong Kong, which has its own NOC separate from China.

There are others.

Let me introduce you to some Brazilian footballers.

I’m going to define a sport as ‘a coded variation of any of the skills that would keep a hunter-gatherer tribe alive’. Since verbal and physical sparring to defuse actual conflict are two of those, Breaking is definitely a sport.

Current sports that I’m not sure meet this definition include snooker and golf.

Raygun: “Breaking? Like bowling leg breaks, right? Yeah, I’m in, how hard can it be?”