There are over 10,000 athletes competing.
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258 athletes from 16 nations competed in the first Winter Olympics (1924), held in Chamonix, France.
France is 7th in number of athletes with 330
The vancouver2010.com web site shows a total of 205 Canadian athletes in the games.
The Finnish Olympic Committee selected a total of 55 athletes to compete in 13 sports.
The number of athletes competing in the 1932 Olympic games fell because the weather at Lake Placid extreme and less than half of the athletes that competed in the 1928 Olympics could attend.
Great Britain, the host country, has the most athletes competing in the London 2012 XXX (30th) Summer Olympics. The United States follows second, yet pretty close to the to them in number of Olympians.
USA sent the most and Great Britain had the most as the host if you meant to call the athletes as delegates for the countries competing at the Olympics
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The number of athletes who attended the Winter Olympics were approximately 2800. The 2800 athletes were from 88 countries that took part in the Winter Olympics. There were about 1650 Paralympians athletes from 45 countries.
The Olympics qualification times is usually used as an indicator of the number of athletes to send to the Olympics.