Complex sentence: Laurence Docherty (born February 24,1980 in Edinburgh) is a field hockey player of Scottish origin, who applied for the Dutch nationality in an attempt to play for the Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Split into simpler sentences: Laurence Docherty (born February 24,1980 in Edinburgh) is a Dutch field hockey player of Scottish origin. Docherty applied for the Dutch nationality in an attempt to play for the Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.