Has china ever sent anyone to the modern olympics if so who where the people? what sport?
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Ummmm, they won both the silver and bronze medals in Pairs Figure Skating in Torino and numerous medals in short and long track speed skating.  Not to mention summer olympics where they are leaders in diving and gymnastics. For lists of athletes, see http://www.olympics.org
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The CHINESE, then the GREEKS and the ROMANS (and some other civilizations all over). Then the modern Football with the ENGLISH and then THE WORLD.\n\nHistory info:\nAssociation football, soccer or simply football. The Laws of the Game are based on efforts made in the mid-19th century to standardise the rules of the widely varying games of football played at the independent schools of England.\n\nDocumented evidence of what is possibly the oldest organized activity resembling football can be found in a Chinese military manual written during the Han Dynasty in about 2nd century BC.\n\nIt describes a practice known as tsu chu (Traditional Chinese:蹴鞠 or 蹴踘 ; Pinyin: cù jū) which involved kicking a leather ball through a hole in a piece of silk cloth strung between two 30 foot poles. It was not a game as such but more of a spectacle for the amusement of the Emperor and it may have been performed as long as 3000 years ago.\n\nThe Greeks and Romans are known to have played many ball games some of which involved the use of the feet.\n\nEvidence from many ancient societies Chinese, Greek, Mayan, and Egyptian reveals that kicking games like soccer was played in those cultures. The modern game of soccer began in the 19th century in England, where a variety of football games developed, all of which involved both handling and kicking.\n\nMany different cultures have played a sport similar to the modern game of soccer but no one can really say with any certainty when or where soccer began but it is known that the earlier variations of what later became soccer were played almost 3000 years ago. \n\nOne of the earliest forms of soccer in which players kicked a ball around on a small field has been traced as far back to 1004 B.C. in Japan. The Munich Ethnological Museum in Germany has a Chinese text from approximately 50 B.C. that mentions games very similar to soccer that were played between teams from Japan and China. The Chinese kicked a leather ball ( hair-filled ) and it is known with certainty that a soccer game was played in 611 A.D. in the then Japanese capital, Kyoto. \n\nThe Romans played a game that somewhat resembled modern soccer. The early Olympic games in  Rome featured twenty-seven men on a side who completed so vigorously that two-thirds of them had to be hospitalized after a fifty-minute game. \n\nWhile historians kept records of events such as wars and religious movements they had very little interest in preserving the various origins of soccer or many other sports, so no one can say how soccer seems to have spread from Asia to Europe.
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The present football invented by England. However, thousand of years back, China already playing such games at a smaller scale in palace.
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You know something is wrong with this picture.  There is the Olympics and the senior Olympics but no inbetween Olympics.  I think you could actually be onto something here.  I suggest that you get a committee together and begin the process of starting up an "Olympics for Late Blommers". We are  missing our chance here, after all what about all of us late bloomers?
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The following countries have sent teams to both the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004) and the Winter Olympics (Turin 2006).\n\nAlbania\nAlgeria\nAndorra\nArgentina\nArmenia\nAustralia\nAustria\nAzerbaijan\nBelarus\nBelgium\nBermuda\nBosnia and Herzegovina\nBrazil\nBulgaria\nCanada\nChile\nChinese Taipei\nCosta Rica\nCroatia\nCyprus\nCzech Republic\nDenmark\nEstonia\nEthiopia\nFinland\nFrance\nGeorgia\nGermany\nGreat Britain\nGreece\nHong Kong\nHungary\nIceland\nIndia\nIran\nIreland\nIsrael\nItaly\nJapan\nKazakhstan\nKenya\nKyrgyzstan\nLatvia\nLebanon\nLiechtenstein\nLithuania\nLuxembourg\nMacedonia\nMadagascar\nMoldova\nMonaco\nMongolia\nNepal\nNetherlands\nNew Zealand\nNorth Korea\nNorway\nPeople's Republic of China\nPoland\nPortugal\nRomania\nRussian Federation\nSan Marino\nSenegal\nSerbia and Montenergo\nSlovakia\nSlovenia\nSouth Africa\nSouth Korea\nSpain\nSweden\nSwitzerland\nTajikistan\nThailand\nTurkey\nUkraine\nUnited States of America\nUS Virgin Islands\nUzbekistan\nVenezuela
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The next Summer Olympic Games are in 2008 and will be held in Beijing, China.  The next Winter Games will be in 2010 and will be held in and around Vancouver, Canada.  Following that there will be a Summer Olympics in London, UK in 2012.  No other host cities have been chosen at this time.
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That is quite a stretch there but the way it works now is that an Olympic athlete can be replaced by another top finisher from the same nation. But if there were no available candidates then the specific sport would be listed as having no winners.
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In terms of a football competition, the FIFA World Cup.\n\n      However, as an overall athletic event, the Olympics, due to their history, and the amount of countries and people they bring together, is by far the better one.
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The Olympics have always been a world comp. the greatest athletes from all over the roman empire and parts of Europe would come to compete. wars between countries would be put on hold for the events. truly just about every country has been represented in the games.
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olympics may consider only the most internationally recognized sports.. squash was in fact supposed to make it into the 2012 olympics however it was competing with four other sports and unfortunately at the conference it didnt make it into the list of sports tht should be played at the olympics (if im not mistaken non of the sports that day presented good enough a reason to make it in) you see the olympics even today is sacred.. being a squash player myself id love to see squash there.. but it needs to cater to much wider range of people... not just the business managers and ceos who play it during the weekend.. it needs to find a much larger proffessional scope before it would be let in.. however as it was considered it might be a safe guess that by 2016 or 2020 it will be in.. it seems like a long time away but if it does get in it will be a big leap forward.. i sure hope itll happen..
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Absolutely.  Haven't you seen the olympics?
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Why the last? If others are interested in skiing and football then others will enter both. I know other football players that were skiers but none I know of with Olympic creds
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the next summer olympics will actually be held in 2008 in Beijing, China
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Judo and Taekwondo are sports in the Summer Olympics.
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Russia is a has been. China has the biggest army, far from the best.
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Athletes in the modern Olympic Games is not just awarded gold, silver and bronze medal for finishing first, second and third. The athletes are awarded with the experience of competing on a state-of-the-art facilities. As well as that they also compete in front of the world. Just competing in the Olympic Games is an award for many athletes.
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I have heard from many people that Sydney 2000 was the best organized and planned games.. \n\nI swam at those games, and I will tell you nothing in my lifetime will be better than that, I am really looking foward to the China Games because they have something to prove..