no
believe and practise
Countries don't compete in the Olympics, people do. To "win" the Olympics, if it is such a thing, would be to be the country with the most and highest medals. And to be the country with the most and highest medals, you need to be the country with the most winning athletes. To get good athletes in as many sports as possible, a country need to make it easy for promising athletes to train, and to train well. Provide coaches, arenas, training camps, doctors, dieticians, sports equipment and so on.
Don't know how exact you need, but about 2000- 2500.
A Lot because you need the practice to compete with the Pros.
no not at all you just need to work really hard
You need a lot of experience and require a professional standard.
To house the athletes of the 2012 London Olympics. When the Games are over, the accommodation will be used to house local people in need of housing.
wel why do you need professional football or basket ball players. its just to see whoes the best in the world and to compete for the top spot and alot of money.but its a great sport t!
To protect younger gymnasts from serious injury. Whether the restriction has actually accomplished this is hotly debated.
Shawn can't compete in college because she is a professional athlete which means she has accepted sponsors. To be eligiable to compete in college, you need to be an ametuer athlete. Shawn had said that she wants to help out or coach part-time in college gymnastics though.
To make the Competetion a challenge. If the competetion is every year, then it would not be symbolicly special. Also, Athletes need time to train for the games.
All countries have some sort of selection process and I suppose in some you could just show up at an open tryout, but more likely the best athletes will be invited to compete. You can't just show up in Bejing and tell the officials you want to enter an event.