So how does this work? I thought this was ABC order so Team USA should be at back of the line?
they use the home language of on Brazil’s case, Portuguese language..
No seasoned watchers of the Olympics know the order of countries is in the alphabetical order of the host nations language. So for Brazil it’s how the countries are called in Portugese. This came to humorous light years ago at the Montreal Games when The US was listed as Etats Unis in French for language of Quebec. ABC who was covering those games (Live btw) assumed the US would march in at U. They were about to go to commercials and almost blew it but recovered in the nick of time.
Brazil is using its native language which is Portuguese. They are using that alphabet for the parade of nations. According the the list the United States is known as Estados Unidos da América. That’s why we’re coming in earlier than usual.