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There are 150 countries with less than 50 athletes and only 54 with 50 or more athletes and 32 of those have 50 to 125 Athletes
more than 10,000 athletes
In Europe there a more countries than in North America, therefore they have more athletes competing and a better chance at winning.
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.
Athletes produce less lactic acid than non-athletes.
Athletes per Country Competing in the Olympics11,028 athletes participated in the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.2,629 athletes participated in the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.Just a handful of countries send more than 100 athletes to the game. The United States sent 596 athletes to Beijing and 215 to Vancouver.When you consider all countries participating in the games (204 countries in Beijing and 82 in Vancouver), the large majority of them are small countries that only send 5 athletes or less. So calculating the average number of athletes sent by each country, you would get a small number.
Many countries have 5 or less athletes and it is more than a 10 way tie for those with only 2
Over 10,000 athletes will complete in the Summer Olympics but the team from each country (NOC) will vary from over 500 for GB and the USA to more than half of the countries with a dozen or less athletes
Over 2,500 athletes and more than 80 countries are coming
More than 10 countries had only 2 athletes
Long-jump.
There are 204 countries. The order of countries with the most athletes is Great Britain, United States, Russia, Australia, China, Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Spain, Canada, Brazil, South Korea, Ukraine, Poland, New Zealand, Netherlands, Belarus, Hungary, Argentina, Sweden, Czech Republic, South Africa, Belgium, Serbia, Kazakhstan,Turkey, Denmark, Egypt, Cuba, Croatia, Colombia, Greece, Romania, Mexico, Switzerland, India, Tunisia, Portugal, Austria, Venezuela, Morocco, Ireland, Slovenia, Norway, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Finland, & Nigeria and over 150 others with less than 55 athletes competing. Jamaica and Iran both won 12 medals including 4 Gold Medals with less than 55 Athletes Kenya won 11 medals with only 47 athletes Ethiopia won 7 including 3 Gold with only 35 athletes