Which was the first Asian country to host the Olympics?
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1964, Tokyo\nThe first Asian country to host the Olympics, Tokyo spent $3bn rebuilding the city to show off its post-war success. The Yoshinori Sakai was chosen as the final torchbearer, who was born on the day that Hiroshima was destroyed by an atomic bomb.
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it's an asian country.
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Australia or Japan\nS.Korea
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Olympic Summer Games:\n\n \nAthens 1896\nParis 1900\nLondon 1908\nStockholm 1912\nAntwerp 1920\nParis 1924\nAmsterdam 1928\nBerlin 1936\nLondon 1948\nHelsinki 1952\nRome 1960\nMunich 1972\nMoscow 1980\nBarcelona 1992\nAthens 2004\nBejing 2008\nLondon 2012
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BADMINTON????????? come-on, you could've atleast said Tennis. well since you asked i'd say INDIA!!!\nReason?\nis me being INDIAN enough?\nif i had to put money on it, i'd say Indonesia, haha
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The first FIFA World Cup was staged in 1930. The tournament was played in Uruguay, the Olympic champions at the time, since they were celebrating the centenary of their independence. As well as being the first ever hosts, Uruguay also became the inaugural champions, beating Argentina in the final, 4 – 2.
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Yes. The Asian Games is held every 4 years. 2 years apart from the Olympic Games but same year as the FIFA Worldcup. So there will be Asian Games this year (at Doha). Next will be in 2010.
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Countries of Asia\nAfghanistan\nArmenia\nAzerbaijan\nBahrain\nBangladesh\nBhutan\nBrunei\nBurma (Myanmar)\nCambodia\nChina\nGeorgia\nHong Kong\nIndia\nIndonesia\nIran\nIraq\nIsrael\nJapan\nJordan\nKazakstan\nKorea, North\nKorea, South\nKuwait\nKyrgyzstan\nLaos\nLebanon\nMalaysia\nMaldives\nMongolia\nMyanmar\nNepal\nOman\nPakistan\nPhilippines\nQatar\nRussia\nSaudi Arabia\nSingapore\nSri Lanka\nSyria\nTaiwan\nTajikistan\nThailand\nTurkey\nTurkmenistan\nUnited Arab Emirates\nUzbekistan\nVietnam\nYemen
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1930 IN URUGUAY \n1908 WAS THE FIRST OLYMPIC SOCCER GAME
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The ancient Olympic Games began in the year 776 BC, when Koroibos, a cook from the nearby city of Elis, won the stadion race, a foot race 600 feet long. The stadion track at Olympia is shown here. According to some literary traditions, this was the only athletic event of the games for the first 13 Olympic festivals or until 724 BC. From 776 BC, the Games were held in Olympia every four years for almost 12 centuries.\n\nContrary evidence, both literary and archaeological, suggests that the games may have existed at Olympia much earlier than this date, perhaps as early as the 10th or 9th century BC. \n\n Although the ancient Games were staged in Olympia, Greece, from 776 BC through 393 AD, it took 1503 years for the Olympics to return. The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. The man responsible for its rebirth was a Frenchman named Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who presented the idea in 1894. His original thought was to unveil the modern Games in 1900 in his native Paris, but delegates from 34 countries were so enthralled with the concept that they convinced him to move the Games up to 1896 and have Athens serve as the first host.
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The first Olympics took place around at least 776 bc in Greece (though this is disputed by historians; the true date may, in fact, be earlier).  They were held every 4 years for 12 centuries.  The first modern Olympic games were held in 1896 in Athens.
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2007\nThe Asian Football Confederation's 2007 Asian Cup finals will be held in July 2007 (Starting on July 7, 2007, ending on July 29, 2007). For the first time in its history (and perhaps in any sporting event), the competition will be co-hosted by four nations – Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.\n\nThe Asian Cup has been held once every four years from 1956 onwards, the last of which held in China in 2004. However, as the Summer Olympic Games and the European Football Championship are also held in the same year as the Asian Cup (2004, 2008, 2012 etc.), the sporting calendar is somewhat crowded. The AFC have thus decided to change their tradition, and will be holding the next tournament in 2007, and every four years henceforth from that date.\n\nIt is the first major tournament that Australia will participate as an invitee of the ASEAN Football Federation since its move into the AFC on January 1, 2006
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The Winter Olympics have indeed only been hosted by Northern Hemisphere countries, but the Summer Games have been south of the equator twice. 1956 Melbourne and 2000 Sydney.
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well stictly speaking there si no answer to your question as East Asia is not a country, therefore your question should be more specific...however you can get heaps of country info at bbc.com
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Greece and Australia  (The US boycotted the Olympics in 1980 due to the Soviet invasion of Afganistan in 1979)
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one of those asian countries either china or japan
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Los Angeles, California has twice played host to the summer Olympic Games: in 1932 and in 1984.