Talk:Russia at the Olympics

RU1 ?

Why did the Olympics deviate from 3-letter-codes for the Russian Empire by using RU1? --KnightMove (talk) 09:24, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Country codes weren't created until '56, long after the Russian Empire was a thing. Given that there aren't that many letters in RUSSIA, and likely not wanting to conflict with any new or upcoming nations that might want to join the IOC, they gave it its somewhat unusual designation. However, I am just guessing here, so I could be way off. Primefac (talk) 10:44, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Timeline of participation

I'm not overly thrilled with the participation timeline, mainly because the table is wider than the page. I've been mulling over the best way to display this information, and the only thing I can think of is to swap the row/column values (i.e. have the years as columns). I'm not sure this will be the best way, but it is the way they do it at the main Summer Olympics article. Primefac (talk) 12:55, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

@Primefac

Hi, 1.5 years late, but maybe this adjustment would solve the problem appealingly:

Date	Team
1900–1912	Russian Empire (RU1)
1920	Estonia (EST)
1924–1936		Latvia (LAT)	Lithuania (LTU)
1952–1988	Soviet Union (URS)
1992	Estonia (EST)	Latvia (LAT)	Lithuania (LTU)	Unified Team (EUN)
1994				Russia (RUS)	Armenia (ARM),  Belarus (BLR),  Georgia (GEO),  Kazakhstan (KAZ),  Kyrgyzstan (KGZ),  Moldova (MDA),  Ukraine (UKR),  Uzbekistan (UZB)
1996–2016						Azerbaijan (AZE),  Tajikistan (TJK),  Turkmenistan (TKM)
2018				Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR)
2020–2022				Russian Olympic Committee (ROC)

Miria~01 (talk) 20:16, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

That seems to work. Primefac (talk) 12:30, 26 June 2023 (UTC)