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There are alot of athletes that went to the Beijing 2008 Olympics. 433 athletes went to the 2008 Olympics, which is the second most amount of Australian athletes that have gone to the Olympics Athens was first with 482 Australian athletes that went.
There were 433 athletes that were in the Australian Olympic team went to the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games.
According to the on-screen information during the opening ceremonies/parade of nations, there are 647 US athletes in Beijing.
6081 athletes.
Japan with 293 athletes was represented in all sports except basketball and handball at the Games. The team won 7 gold medals and 38 medals in total
Only men were allowed to compete in the Ancient Olympics and they didn't wear anything while competing, they went naked.
Including all professional sports from around the world, 2,734 athletes went pro in 2009.
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There were 962 metals given out for the 302 events. The number of Athletes is much higher because every athlete will get the medal on the winning team or pair. There were Bronze medals awarded to 2 individuals in 56 events and there were also 2 bronze metals upgraded to silver when there were ties for second. 302 gold metals 304 silver medals and 356 bronze medals were won by the athletes. Just in Men's water Polo the event medals of the Gold Silver and Bronze medals were awarded to 39 athletes and the same for the women's Water Polo. In Football or Soccer the Men and Women's event metals went to 108 athletes who are members of the six medal winning teams. Instead of 12 medals there were 182 athletes who received metals for these 4 events alone
the london 2012 olympics went for 17 days !