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Hong Kong rewards its winning athletes more handsomely than any other competing country: Sky News reports that Hong Kong awards $768,000 per gold medal and $380,000 per silver medal. Related: What ...
Hong Kong first competed at the Olympic Games in 1952.It competed as a British colony until 1996.After the territory's handover in 1997, it has competed since 2000 as "Hong Kong, China" with its status as a special administrative region (SAR) of China.
Hong Kong, competing as "Hong Kong, China" competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the territory's eighteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics since its debut as a British colony in 1952, except Moscow 1980 as part of US led boycott, and the seventh appearance at the Summer Olympics since the sovereignty of Hong Kong was returned to the People's ...
for the second suspension in 2015–2017, athletes from Kuwait were also competing in several international competitions under the IOC flag, but this time in the team of Individual Olympic Athletes (IOA), including (but not only) in the 2016 Summer Olympics. MIX Mixed-NOCs: 2010– Used as the country code for Mixed NOCs at the Youth Olympics ...
The Hong Kong government has licensed the broadcast rights to the Summer Olympic Games in Paris. It intends to relicense the rights to four TV broadcasters in the city – TVB, ViuTV, HOY TV and ...
KUW: Athletes from Kuwait competed as Athletes from Kuwait (IOC) at the 2010 Asian Games, 2010 Asian Beach Games and 2011 Asian Winter Games and as Independent Olympic Athletes (IOA) at the 2012 and 2016 Asian Beach Games, 2017 Asian Winter Games and 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games due to the suspension of the country's Olympic Committee.
The emblem used until the handover of Hong Kong in 1997. Before the handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China in 1997, the committee was called the Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong and participated in 12 games (all summer) under the name "Hong Kong".
Hong Kong at the 2020 Summer Olympics; IOC code: HKG: NOC: Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China: Website: www.hkolympic.org (in Chinese and English) in Tokyo, Japan July 23, 2021 () – August 8, 2021 () Competitors: 46 in 13 sports: Flag bearers (opening) Tse Ying Suet Cheung Ka Long: Flag bearer (closing) Grace Lau