Mens:
Canada
Slovakia
Russia
United States
Finland
Sweden
Czech Republic
Switzerland
Germany
Belarus
Latvia
Norway
Womens:
Canada
Sweden
Switzerland
Slovakia
United States
Finland
Russia
China (Belive it or not)
Soviet Union. Canada did not compete in hockey at the 1972 Winter Olympics to protest the perceived professionalism of teams from Communist countries.
204 Teams
There were no Winter Olympics in 1999.
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There are 88 countries participating in the 2014 Winter Olympics.
There are 91 teams in the 2010 winter Olympic games.
there are 91 teams in the 2010 winter olympic games
witch countries compete in the winter Olympics 2010
444 ... 276 men and 168 women. The 12 men's teams had 23 players per team and the 8 women's teams had 21 players per team.
There are two kinds of Olympic Games... the summer and the winter games. And yes, ice hockey is integrated in the Olympic Winter games - for men and women. The competing teams are determined according to the IIHF world rankings of the respective national teams; some nations are seeded, others have to qualify - and some nations are too far below the ranking regions for qualification.
There is no such thing as women's hockey. It is merely a fixed spectacle created to give women the idea that they are equal. The women's hockey teams roll a dice to decide the olympic gold medal winners, silver, etc..
Field hockey was introduced at the Summer Olympic Games as a men's competition at the 1908 Games in London with six teams