The Gambia at the Olympics
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The Gambia has sent athletes to every Summer Olympic Games held since 1984, although the country has never won an Olympic medal. The nation has never competed at the Winter Olympic Games.
Gambia at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Opening Ceremony - Beijing, China
Jaysuma Saidy Ndure (pictured in 2011) ran for The Gambia at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics, but later switched nationalities and competed for Norway in 2008, 2012 and 2016.
New Zealand at the Olympics
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New Zealand first sent an independent team to the Olympics in 1920. Before this, at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics, New Zealand and Australian athletes competed together in a combined Australasia t
The Gambia at the Olympics
…inaugural competition but it joined 28 countries in a boycott (most of which were also African). This boycott was to protest the IOC's decision to allow New Zealand to compete at the games, despite its rugby union team breaking the international sporting boycott of South Africa earlier in the year. The Gambia was…
The New Zealand rowing team at the 1932 Summer Olympics