MICH JORDAN competed & won in the Olympic Games
The first Philippine basketball team to compete in the Olympics was at the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin .... they finished 5th.
The national team's first Olympics was the 1936 Games in Berlin where they finished in 5th place.
As a separate country Belarus has competed in the '96, '00, '04, and the '08 summer games. They have also competed in the '94, '98, '02 and the '06 winter games. A year after they declared independence from the ussr they competed with eleven other former ussr countries on a unified team in the '92 Summer Olympics.
The team that competed in the Olympics was known as Team GB.
The 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver were the 5th Olympics that Hayley has competed in. She has won 4 medals (3 gold, 1 silver) with the Canadian women's ice hockey team (silver in 1998 and gold in 2002, 2006, and 2010). She also competed with the Canadian softball team at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney. They finished 8th.
Men first played handball at the 1936 Games in Berlin. The event was then removed from the Olympics until the 1972 Games in Munich and has been competed in every Olympics since. Women first played handball at the 1976 Games in Montreal and the event has been competed in every Olympics since.
The 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver were the 18th Winter Olympics that Spain has competed in ... they have sent a team to each Winter Olympics since the 1936 Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Yes, the Harlem Globetrotters competed in the Olympics in Moscow in 1959. Wilt Chamberlain played on the team at the time, and he was the first Globetrotter to have his number retired.
Malta first competed at the 1928 Summer Games in Amsterdam. They have competed in 14 Olympic Games and have sent a team to every Summer Games since 1980. Malta has never sent a team to the Winter Olympics. At the 2008 Games in Beijing, Malta sent 6 athletes to compete in athletics, swimming, judo, and shooting. No Malta athlete won a medal.
The men's and women's beach volleyball teams first competed at the 1996 Games in Atlanta. The men's and women's indoor volleyball teams first competed at the 2000 Games in Sydney.
Italy sent a team of 344 athletes to compete at the 2008 Games in Beijing.