Grandfather rule
Rule allowing sports players to play for country of their ancestors / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Grandfather clause.
The grandfather rule, in sports which usually only permit participants to play for the team of their country of birth, is an exception which gives participants the option to play for the country of any of their ancestors up to the grandparents. Despite the common name for the rule, grandparents of either sex can be invoked equally and it is sometimes referred to as the grandparent rule or the granny rule.
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