Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics The Netherlands competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. Dutch athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic games since its official debut in 1908. Netherlands, however, boycotted the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, because of the Soviet invasion of Hungary. The Netherlands National Olympic Committee (, "NOC*NSF") sent a total of 210 athletes to the Games, 134 men and 76 women, to compete in 21 sports. Baseball, field hockey, and men's volleyball were the only team-based sports in which the Netherlands had its representation at these
Athletics at the 2015 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival Athletics at the 2015 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival The athletics competition at the 2015 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival was held at the Athletics Stadium of Tbilisi in Tbilisi, Georgia between 27 July and 1 August. A total of 36 events were contested, evenly divided between the sexes, repeating the programme of the previous edition. The competition was preceded the World Athletics Leaders Seminar, which included European Athletics president Svein Arne Hansen and IAAF Vice President Sergey Bubka among its attendees. The games' athletics came ahead of the city's hosting of the 2016 European Athletics Youth Championships – the