Brits don't recognise more than third of countries competing in Olympics
More than 183 countries from across the globe have qualified at least one athlete in the 2012 Olympic Games and will becoming to Britain this year to take part, but a new study from latedeals.co.uk has found that many Brits dont recognise the names of more than a third of the National Olympic Committees competing in this years games.
The company, which quizzed more than 2,000 holidaymakers, found that 66% of Brits think that Cancun is in the US (not Mexico), 52% reported that Prague was in Sweden and 48% don't know that the Alps are in Europe.
41% also think that the Three Valleys are in Austria and half couldn't name the countries that Marrakech, Frankfurt and Milan belong to.
