The International Wushu Federation has been promoting wushu as a potential Olympic sport for some time. The award of the 2008 Summer Olympics to Beijing presented an opportunity to showcase wushu in an Olympic competition environment. Although, according to the contract signed between the and the host city, no international or national sports competition is allowed to be held in the Olympic host city during the Games and one week before or after, the IOC specifically permitted the to organise the Wushu tournament in parallel to the Olympic Games, due to wushu's place in traditional Chinese culture.
Other than substituting the Olympics symbol with International Wushu Federation's symbol, all other elements are identical to the Olympics. Athletes are allowed to stay in athletes village. The official BOCOG website also has the schedule&results, profile of the athletes
Medal summary
The wushu tournament featured a total of 128 athletes from 43 countries. Qualification for the tournament was through placing at the 2007 . The medals will not be added to the official Olympics medal tally. The tournament featured a total of 15 separate events in the taolu and sanshou disciplines:
Medal table
Taolu
Sanshou
Results
Taolu
Men's Changquan
Men's Daoshu & Gunshu combined
Men's Nanquan & Nangun combined
Men's Jianshu & Qiangshu combined
Men's Taijiquan & Taijijian combined
Women's Changquan
Women's Daoshu & Gunshu combined
Women's Nanquan & Nandao combined
Women's Jianshu & Qiangshu combined
Women's Taijiquan & Taijijian combined
Sanshou
'''Legend :
DI = Default-injury
KO = Knock-out
TV = Technical victory
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