New Zealand suffers a “snub” by being “forgotten” at the end of the Olympic Games.

New Zealanders have been subjected to what the media has described as an “overwhelming snub” after being “forgotten” by organizers of the closing ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Sunday.

On the occasion of the ceremony, a world map artwork was created at the stadium to commemorate the athletes participating in the tournament. However, New Zealand does not appear on the map.

On social media, there was a lot of criticism about this omission. “The French are leaving New Zealand off their ‘world’ map, won’t they stop insulting us?” “We are a very humble people. Perhaps so humble that people believe we are not,” replied another. “Of course we don’t matter to the rest of the world,” wrote a third internet user.

In this context, New Zealand media 1News noted: “Even a record number of gold medals and 11th place in the medal table do not seem enough to justify the inclusion of Aotearoa (New Zealand) on the world stage.”

At the same time, other Internet users believed that this was not a specific attack against New Zealand, since the representation did not seek geographic accuracy and many Asian and Caribbean island countries, as well as Indonesia, Madagascar and others, were missing. “Does Indonesia cry?” As one commentator noted.

The repeated omission of Australia’s neighbors from representations of the world led to the tourism campaign ‘Get NZ on the Map’.