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No, Iraq sent 4 athletes to participate in Bejing. Yes, it was announced that Iraq would be banned.
Iraqi athletes are competing in rowing and athletics at the 2008 Games in Beijing.
Iraq is expected to send two athletes to Beijing. Five others lost their chance to go when the final date to select competitors for archery, judo, rowing and weightlifting passed last week. Dana Hussein, a sprinter, and Haider Nasir, a discus thrower, will compete in Beijing because track-and-field events have a later registration. http://www.ktka.com/news/2008/jul/29/iraqi_athletes_participate_olympics_after_all/
The country Iraq was banned from the Olympics in the year of 2008.
The estimated population for the country of Iraq in 2008 was 29.8 million people. The population estimate for Iraq for 2013 was 34.8 million.
Georgia announced on 9 August 2008 that it is considering withdrawing from the Beijing Olympic Games due to current military conflict in South Ossetia. On July 24, 2008, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) banned Iraq from competing in the 2008 Olympic Summer Games due to "political interference by the government in sports." For further reading a link is posted below.
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Iraq was not allowed at the Olympics because of international conflict.
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