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Although the assistance of qualifications for the various sports are booming, it can not be sure that the current 205 National Olympic Committees (NOCs), will participate in the year 2008. Most NOCs meet regularly, although various circumstances can lead to a nation, are not at stake, as has been the case for the six NOCs on the Winter Olympics of 2006. Yet, in various stages of qualifying race may help predict the number of nations and athletes are related to the games. Steven Roush, head of sport performance for the United States Olympic Committee, believes that the United States will be competing with 600 for the Games, its biggest Olympic team so far.
Participation changes
Since the last Olympics, policy statements from a handful of countries have changed, so that new NOCs were created, or, on request, be created. By contrast, Korea discussions on the sending of a joint team for the Games.
The Marshall Islands NOC status granted in February 2006 and is expected to participate in games. Representatives of Tuvalu also with the IOC President Jacques Rogge during the year 2005, said that the country should have a full-fledged member of the 119th IOC Session Olympics in the year 2007. During the meeting, the Association of Sports and National Olympic Committees Tuvalu, as new national Olympic committees.
In May 2006 (just after the 2006 Winter Olympic Games), the citizens of Montenegro have been a popular vote, the political isolation its reunification with Serbia. The situation in Serbia and Montenegro, in 2004, took part in games in joint Serbia and Montenegro, the competition is now separately. The Montenegrin Olympic Committee has been chosen as the new National Olympic Committee during the 119th IOC Session in cooperation with Tuvalu.
A resolution of the Netherlands Antilles, took place in July 2007, with Sint Maarten Curacao and Aruba, such as the status aparte. That status would allow the latter, the islands to create their own NOCs, they must compete with separate games. However, the resolution has been postponed until December 2008, four months after the proposed 2008 Olympic Games, requires all new NOCs to wait until the 2012 Olympic Games to participate in the Summer Games.
On February 17, 2008, the IOC also promised to identify, the Republic of Kosovo as a new independent nation. However, it is not likely that the athletes from the Republic's newly created position to qualify for the Olympics at the time, a delegation from Beijing. Their participation is further strengthened by the fact that the new nation has not yet recognized by many other international sports federations.
North Korea and South Korea were sending a unified team for the 2008 Olympic Games. In the past, the two countries were together in the parade of nations during the opening ceremonies, but never as a team competition. The two NOCs met with the IOC President, Jacques Rogge, September 5, 2006, to ensure the possibility of creating such a combined team. In spring 2007, the President, Korean Olympic Committee Kim Jung-Kil and North Olympic Committee president Mun Jae-duk to continue to discuss logistics met for the dispatch of a team uniform. At the meeting, South Korea agreed to the selection of athletes is based on performance, while North Korea for equal representation hopes athletes, if both truly a joint team. The NOCs not come to an agreement on the representation, but said they had further discussions in the future. |
