Team Tibet is a sporting organization representing
Tibetan exiles. Formed in
India in 2001 as the
Tibetan National football team, the group planned to participate in
Beijing in the
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...
as Tibet, but their request was rejected by the
IOC
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...
.
[{{Cite web , date=Nov 10, 2007 , title=IOC rebuffs Tibetan request for own team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/sports/10iht-olytibet10.8670030.html , access-date=Aug 12, 2024 , website= The New York Times]
See also
*
Tibetan Olympics 2008
References
External links
* A similar organization
Tibet Sports Association
2008 Summer Olympics