A 274-member Chinese team arrived in Athens for the Athens
Olympic Games Sunday afternoon.
Among the first main batch of the Chinese delegation were
chef-de-mission and Chinese Olympic chief Yuan Weimin and athletes
in 16 sports, namely shooting, archery, table tennis, diving,
swimming, weightlifting, fencing, softball, women' s handball,
field hockey, boxing, judo, wrestling, cycling, tennis and beach
volleyball.
Teams of women's soccer, gymnastics, rowing and women's field
hockey had earlier arrived in Athens.
The total number of Chinese Olympic delegates is 637, the
country's largest ever for the world's top sporting event.
(Xinhua News Agency August 9, 2004)
