There were nine new events under existing sports that were competed for the first time:
1) Cycling - new events for men's and women's individual BMX.
2) Swimming - new events for men's and women's 10 km open water swim (called the marathon).
3) Athletics - new event for women's 3000 meter steeplechase.
4) Fencing - new events for women's team foil and women's team Sabre replaced men's team foil and women's team epee.
5) Table Tennis - new events for women's team and men's team replaced women's doubles and men's doubles.
Sixty (60) countries participated in the taekwondo events at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, and sixty-four (64) countries participated in the taekwondo events at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
At the summer games in Beijing, 11,028 athletes participated from 204 countries, and many thousands more volunteered and helped organize the events.
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233 individual fencers competed in various events in the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Fencing competition.
Here is the complete list of events on the official website http://en.beijing2008.cn/cptvenues/sports/athletics/index.shtml ----------- Mike www.localnoodles.com - Beijing User-Generator City Guide
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204 Countries participated in the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic games.
He set 8 Olympic records at the Beijing Olympic games.
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There were total of 11,196 athletes in 2008 Beijing Olympics
There are 204 National Olympic Committees at the Beijing Olympics. Each represents a country.