China Sending More Than 400 Athletes to Tokyo Olympics

BEIJING - China will send 431 athletes to the Tokyo Games as part of a 777-member delegation, its largest at an Olympics outside China, the official Xinhua News Agency said Wednesday. 

The team includes 298 female athletes, more than twice the 133 male competitors. They range in age from 14-year-old female diver Quan Hongchan to 52-year-old male equestrian rider Li Zhenqiang, Xinhua said.  "This is the largest ever Olympic delegation China has sent overseas," Gao Zhidan, deputy director of China's State General Administration of Sport, was quoted as saying.  The delegation to the Beijing Games in 2008 was larger, with 1,099 people including 639 athletes.