The International Olympic Committee (IOC) to introduce each group of sports, participating in the Olympic Games, that the nationality of a San. codes of countries, that the phrase, short three letter. uses. Each code is usually a national Olympic Committee to introduce it. but the codes are a lot of that in other cases in the game, the former have been used. Like the groups that exercise, a few countries were using, or groups of sports, who represent no country, have been.

a large number of codes with the codes of the standard ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 have differences. Organization other sports, including FIFA, or the game, too, benefit from codes country similar for a referral to the team, their favoured use.