South Africa South Africa was banned from the Olympics (starting in 1964) but they were allowed back starting with the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona after their citizens voted to ban apartheid.
216 countries will participate in 2012 Olympics.....
203 countries currently participate in the Olympics
252 countries are partisipating in olympics
For all of the countries to do all the sports in the Olympics there has to be a certain amount of them in the team. However it is possible for a country to participate in all of the sports. Some of the countries this year only have a couple of players so no. All of the countries in the Olympics do not do all sports.
greenland
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See related link for a list of all the countries that are expected to participate.
204 countries
There are 88 countries in the 2014 Winter Olympics.
82 countries participated in the winter Olympics :)
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