The Cook Islands have competed in six Summer Olympic Games. They have never competed in the Winter Games. The Cook Islands have yet to win a medal as of 2012.
The Cook Islands are the only one of the three dependent territories of New Zealand to compete at the Olympic Games, Niue and Tokelau having not yet done so to date.
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“From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth; but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but with the necessary conveniences so much sought after in Europe; they are happy in not knowing the use of them.”
—James, Captain Cook (1728–1779)
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if you are lost
what is Naxos, Tinos, Andros,
and Delos, the clasp
of the white necklace?”
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