Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Brunei entered female athletes for the first time.
The 2012 Games in London will Holly's first time competing at the Olympics.
18000 people competing. And 52 countries!
At London 2012, 3 countries allowed women to compete at the Olympics for the first time. These were Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Brunei.
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The first Winter Olympics, held in 1924 in Chamonix, France, had athletes competing from 16 countries: Austria Belgium Canada Czechoslovakia Finland France Great Britain Hungary Italy Latvia Norway Poland Switzerland Sweden United States Yugoslavia
The first Olympics took place in 776 BCE located in Olympia.
Sixteen countries participated in the first Winter Olympics in 1924.
The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, where the ancient Olympics originated. Since then, the Olympics have been held in countries all over the world.The next one will be held in London, England, in 2012.
for the 2000 till now we had to do a swimming position in order and the first one to do all of them first won the swimming part of the olympics
Singapore first competed in the Olympics at the 1948 Summer Games in London.
82 nations are competing in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. The Cayman Islands, Columbia, Ghana, Montenegro, Pakistan, Peru, and Serbia will competing in their first Winter Olympics. Costa Rico, Kenya, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Thailand, Virgin Islands, and Venezuela are not participating in this years Olympics but did participate in the 2006 in Turin, Italy.
Greece by tradition or custom followed by other competing countries in alphabetical order and finally the host nation Great Britain.