Chinese Taipei at the Olympics

The following timeline concerns the different names and principal events concerning recognition of the Republic of China (ROC) Olympic team:

• 1922 – The China National Amateur Athletic Federation is recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the National Olympic Committee in China.{{cite web|url=https://www.tpenoc.net/info/|title=奧會簡介|trans-title=Introduction to the Olympic Committee|language=zh|website=Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee|access-date=9 July 2022|archive-date=30 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430064435/https://www.tpenoc.net/info/|url-status=live}}
• 1932 – ROC competes in the Olympics for the first time as China.{{cite web|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1932/1932s.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707164120/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1932/1932s.pdf|archive-date=7 July 2010|title=X Olympiad Los Angeles 1932 Official Report|website=LA84 Foundation|access-date=9 July 2022}}
• 1949 – The China National Amateur Athletic Federation moves to Taiwan.{{cite journal|last1=Chan|first1=Gerald|date=Autumn 1985|title=The "Two-Chinas" Problem and the Olympic Formula|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2759241|journal=Pacific Affairs|volume=58|issue=3|pages=473–490|doi=10.2307/2759241|jstor=2759241|access-date=9 July 2022|archive-date=4 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220204040844/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2759241|url-status=live}}
• 1952 – ROC team withdraws from the Helsinki OlympicsWerner Soderstrom Osakeyhtio, {{cite web|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1952/OR1952.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411091045/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1952/OR1952.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 April 2008|title=The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the Games of the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952 }} {{small|(30.6 MB)}} p. 32, Sulo Kolkka (ed.), Alex Matson (trans.), The Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952, 1952 because the IOC permits the People's Republic of China (PRC) to participate.
• 1954 – IOC adopts a resolution officially recognising the PRC's Chinese Olympic Committee.{{cite web|url=http://en.olympic.cn/china_oly/china_olympic/2004-03-30/124550.html|title=10th–15th Olympic Summer Games: 1936–1952|website=Chinese Olympics Committee|date=30 March 2004|access-date=2008-11-29|archive-date=2016-09-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919084635/http://en.olympic.cn/china_oly/china_olympic/2004-03-30/124550.html|url-status=live}}
• 1956 – ROC represents at Melbourne Games as the Republic of China. PRC withdraws from the Games in protest because two Chinese Olympic Committees are in the list of IOC members.The Times, "The Latest Threat to the Olympics - And its all over a name", 10 July 1976
• 1958 – PRC withdraws from Olympic movement and all federations governing Olympic sports. Professor Dong Shouyi, an IOC member for the PRC resigns.{{cite conference |url=https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll10/id/14310/rec/1 |title=Globalization is not a Dinner Party: He Zhenliang and China's 30-Year Struggle for Recognition by the International Olympic Committee |last1=Brownell |first1=Susan |date=March 2005 |publisher=LA84 Foundation |book-title=Globalization and Sport in Historical Context |pages= |location=University of California, San Diego |conference= |id= |access-date=2022-07-09 |archive-date=2022-07-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709034920/https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll10/id/14310/rec/1 |url-status=live }}
• 1959 – IOC informs the ROC that they do not control sport on Mainland China, rules determine the ROC will no longer be recognised under the "Chinese Olympic Committee" title. All applications under a different name would be considered.
• 1960 – ROC committee is renamed the "Olympic Committee of the Republic of China", and so recognised.
• 1963 – IOC recognizes the name "Taiwan", and the NOC is allowed to use the initials "ROC" on sports outfits.
• 1968 – IOC agrees to renaming the Taiwan team as the Republic of China after the 1968 Games and to its participation under that banner.
• 1976 – ROC is not permitted to participate in the Montreal Summer Games, as long as it insists on the name of Republic of China, because the host country, Canada, recognises the PRC as the sole legitimate government of China.{{cite journal|last1=Pound|first1=Richard W.|date=2012|title=Side-Swiped: the IOC and the China Issue at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games|url=https://isoh.org/wp-content/uploads/JOH-Archives/JOHv20n1j.pdf|journal=Journal of Olympic History|volume=20|issue=1|pages=11–32|access-date=9 July 2022|archive-date=18 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118210323/https://isoh.org/wp-content/uploads/JOH-Archives/JOHv20n1j.pdf|url-status=live}}{{cite journal|last1=Pound|first1=Richard W.|date=2012|title=Side-Swiped: the IOC and the China Issue at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games Part 2|url=https://isoh.org/wp-content/uploads/JOH-Archives/JOHv20n2q.pdf|journal=Journal of Olympic History|volume=20|issue=2|pages=34–51|access-date=9 July 2022|archive-date=16 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240816035801/https://isoh.org/wp-content/uploads/JOH-Archives/JOHv20n2q.pdf|url-status=live}}
• 1979 – IOC recognises the Chinese Olympic Committee as the official representative of China. The IOC decision is followed by a postal ballot among 89 members.{{cite journal|url=https://library.olympics.com/Default/doc/SYRACUSE/168903/olympic-review-official-publication-of-the-olympic-movement-vol-145-november-1979|title=China and the Five Rings|journal=Olympic Review|volume=145|page=626|date=November 1979|access-date=9 July 2022|archive-date=6 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206045359/https://library.olympics.com/Default/doc/SYRACUSE/168903/olympic-review-official-publication-of-the-olympic-movement-vol-145-november-1979|url-status=live}} Under the IOC decision, the ROC's Olympics committee would be renamed as "Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee" and is not allowed to use the ROC's national anthem or flag.
• 1980 – ROC boycotts the Lake Placid Winter Games and the Moscow Summer Games due to the decision to use the name Chinese Taipei in international sporting events.{{cite journal|last1=Eaton|first1=Joseph|date=November 2016|title=Reconsidering the 1980 Moscow Olympic Boycott: American Sports Diplomacy in East Asian Perspective|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26376807|journal=Diplomatic History|volume=40|issue=5|pages=845–864|doi=10.1093/dh/dhw026|jstor=26376807|access-date=9 July 2022|archive-date=23 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023092500/https://www.jstor.org/stable/26376807|url-status=live}}
• 1981 – An agreement is signed in Lausanne by Juan Antonio Samaranch, the president of the IOC, and Shen Chia-ming, the president of the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (CTOC).{{cite web|url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AqIYensMNiiYfJaz8DAYrRxdxVNwa6H9/view|title=1981 Agreement with IOC|format=PDF|website=Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee|date=23 March 1981|access-date=9 July 2022|archive-date=12 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210912031625/https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AqIYensMNiiYfJaz8DAYrRxdxVNwa6H9/view|url-status=live}} The agreement specifies the name, flag and emblem of the CTOC.
• 1984 – Chinese Taipei competes for the first time under the new moniker at the Sarajevo Winter Games.

{{See also|All-time Olympic Games medal table}}

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• List of flag bearers for Chinese Taipei at the Olympics
• :Category:Olympic competitors for Taiwan
• Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee
• Chinese Taipei Olympic flag
• Chinese Taipei at the Asian Games
• Republic of China at the Olympics
• Chinese Taipei at the Paralympics

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• {{cite web |title=Chinese Taipei |date=27 July 2021 |publisher=International Olympic Committee |url=https://www.olympic.org/chinese-taipei }}
• {{cite web |title=Chinese Taipei |publisher=Olympedia.com |url=http://www.olympedia.org/countries/TPE }}
• {{cite web |title=Olympic Analytics/TPE |publisher=olympanalyt.com |url=http://olympanalyt.com/OlympAnalytics.php?param_pagetype=MedalsByGames¶m_country=TPE }}

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