ShareThisBEIJING -- At the 2004 Olympics, Brunei was one of three teams represented by just one competitor. But Brunei is down to zero, having been excluded from these Games after failing to register a single athlete.Meanwhile, the two other one-competitor teams from 2004 have doubled their representation. The British Virgin Islands and Liechtenstein arrived in Beijing with two members, welcome news for Liechtenstein shooter Oliver Geissmann, who went solo in 2004."If I were standing in line to eat at the Olympic Village, somebody would say, 'Where's the rest of your team?"' Geissmann said of 2004. "Then I'd say, 'I am the team."'
Two Olympians is enough for some countries
Submitted by SHNS on Mon, 08/18/2008 - 08:41
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