The Cook Islands national rugby league team has been participating in international competition since 1988.

库克岛自1988年已开始参加国际性比赛。

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Whereas the modern Olympics are an international competition -- a record 201 countries will be participating in the 2004 Olympiad -- the ancient Games were, for most of their 1200-year history, an exclusively Greek institution.

CNN: The Ancient Olympics