 Barbados competed for the first time as an independent country.Also competing for the first time in a Summer Olympiad were British Honduras (now Belize), Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (as Congo-Kinshasa), El Salvador, Guinea, Honduras, Kuwait, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Sierra Leone, and the United States Virgin Islands.Singapore returned to the Games as an independent country after competing as part of the Malaysian team in 1964.