Team Europe

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Designate the unified team of the European Union in several sports competitions. While the European Union does not represent per se a country, European teams have been formed to compete in several international competitions, mainly against the USA. The most famous of these competitions is the Ryder Cup which opposes each year a European team and an American teams in golf.

Main article: European Union member states at the 2004 Summer Olympics

A spokesman for the European Union, Reijo Kemppinen, made a controversial declaration at the 2004 Athens Games. Kemppinen noted that EU member nations won 286 medals, including 82 gold medals. He therefore declared that Europe topped the ranking medals.[1]

Hypothetical medal table :

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Flag of European Union Europe (EU) 78 100 102 280
2 United States United States (USA) 36 39 27 102
3 China China (CHN) 32 17 14 63
4 Russia Russia (RUS) 27 27 38 92
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