Are there any countries Banned from the Olympics this year?
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Neither Iraq or Afghanistan have chosen to send a team to Turin, but the North Koreans are competiting and marched into the stadium with their South Korean neighbours under a unified Korean flag
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This is the only information I can find regarding the event at Barcelona 1992 that you are after:\n\nUNIFIED TEAM (EX USSR)  (Gold)\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA  (Silver)\nGREAT BRITAIN  (Bronze)\n\nFor details, you have have to contact the Spanish Olympic Committee
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Countries have to bid to host the world cup, like cities do with the Olympics.  As far as I know the only future WC set for now is South Africa 2010.
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No.\n\nThe sites for Winter Olympics are:\n1924 - Chamonix, France\n1928 - St Moritz, Switzerland\n1932 - Lake Placid, USA\n1936 - Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany\n1940 - Sapporo, Japan - St Moritz - Garmisch-Partenkirchen - CANCELLED\n1944 - Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy - CANCELLED\n1948 - St Moritz\n1952 - Oslo, Norway\n1956 - Cortina d'Ampezzo\n1960 - Sqaw Valley, USA\n1964 - Innsbrück, Austria\n1968 - Grenoble, France\n1972 - Sapporo\n1976 - Denver - Innsbrück\n1980 - Lake Placid\n1984 - Sarajevo, Yugoslavia\n1988 - Calgary, Canada\n1992 - Haute Savoie, France\n1994 - Lillehammer, Norway\n1998 - Nagano, Japan\n2002 - Salt Lake City, USA\n2006 - Torino, Italy\n2010 - Vancouver, Canada\n2014 - Almaty, Kazakhstan OR Borjomi, Georgia OR Jaca, Spain OR Pyeong Yang, China OR Salzburg, Austria OR Sochi, Russia OR Sofia, Bulgaria (to be announced in 2007)
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There are no summer olympics in 2006, in 2008 they are in Beijing, China. The winter olympics are in 2006.
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no, the winter olympics contain sports that have to do wih the winter, basketball is a summer event.
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Doping is illegal and since the athletes and the Olympic games are in Italy, their police are getting involved. Just like the police here in the US would get involved if it was here.
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OF COURSE THERE ARE! After all, Bulgaria is a candidate for the Winter Olympics Games 2014. The best and most famous BG resorts are BANSKO, BOROVETS, and VITOSHA (it's a mountain really close to the capital Sofia). For more info about Sofia as a winter olympics aplicant city you might like to check: http://www.sofia2014bg.org/
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In Practical terms.. No its not. 'coz in olympics far more countries are involved and all the games, But in Popularity terms.. I think it is
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Yes, slight problem with this theory though and that is Softball is on the way out. Yes, it will be done in Beijing 2008, but London 2012 has said "No" to softball. And it's unknown whether or not the bids for the 2016 Games have even got the sport considered.
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Japan is out and Korea is out.\n\nhttp://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/index.html
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world cup was not played last year
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WWE IS ALSO NOT IN OLYMPICS.\n\nTHE VERY SAME REASON WHY CRICKET IS NOT INCLUDED IN OLYMPICS.
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Not this time\nAustralia or Japan
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Section 47.1 of the Olympic Charter says:\n\nTo be included in the programme of the Olympic Games, an Olympic sports must conform to the following criteria:\n\n1. Only sports widely practised by men in at least seventy-five countries and on four continents and by women in at least forty countries and on three continents may be include in the programme of the Games of the Olympiad.\n\nSo, never.
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Yes some countries will not allow you in.
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Korea might make the last 16. Japan definitely out.