The athletes from Greece in honor of where the Olympics began.
The first modern Olympics began in 1896. Other similar events occurred leading up to the games but these were the first to be officially sanctioned by the IOC.
Most would hear about Greek athletes from the first Olympics. Athletes often participated in the Olympics as a challenge to earn the winning title of the best athlete. For training, most athletes trained hard, but most had to run nude. And the events in the Olympics included Discus, Track, chariot racing and other sports that are still used in today's Olympics.
Chariot races, Foot races, Javelin/Discus.
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 no women in the first Olympics.
me
Ahmed Ahmed
Cambodia took two athletes to the 1956 Olympics games, to the Equestrian events, Isoup Ghanty and Pen Saing. Neither achieved medal success.
The country of Mexico participated for the first time in the summer Olympic games in the year of 1900, and had sent athletes for the games consistently since the year 1924. In total Mexico had participated in 27 summer events and in 13 Winter Olympics events. Mexican athletes had won a total of 62 medals.
69 mayyyun
258