Egypt sent its largest delegation of female athletes to the 2012 Summer Olympics since it first participated in 1912 but there is still much work to be done.
China first participated in the Olympics in 1932, when it sent one athlete to compete in Los Angeles.
Duke Oishi, an attorney with the Honolulu-based law firm Cades Schutte, first participated in public events with a co-worker.
Born in Switzerland in 1933, he first participated in the Biennale in 1965.
Guatemala had not won a medal before, having first participated in the Olympic Games in 1952.
His father, Rabbi Alter Metzger, now 76, first participated in 1953, and his children will join in for the first time on Wednesday.
Alongside his day job in educational publishing, he explains, he's a NaNoWriMo old-timer, having first participated in the 2005 programme.
The Egyptian Olympic Committee was founded in 1910, and an Egyptian first participated in the Summer Games in 1912.
Specifically, subjects first participated in a dictator game.
It first participated in the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games.
