Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Pacific island nation Nauru (NRU) competed at the Summer Olympic Games first in the 1996 games in Atlanta. The country has made subsequent appearances in Sydney in 2000, in Athens in 2004, and in Beijing in 2008. The nation is mainly known for its weightlifting tradition and all seven athletes that have competed for Nauru at the Olympics have been weightlifters. Nauru earns a distinction for being the smallest nation (by population) in the 202 member International Olympic Committee. Under the leadership of the Hon. Vinson Detenamo, the Olympic movement began in Nauru in the early 1990s.