Some of the smaller countries competing at the 2008 Games are Fiji (6 athletes), Monaco (5 athletes), Marshall Islands (5 athletes), Oman (4 athletes), and Liechenstein (2 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.
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New Zealand is a small country and simply could not afford to host the Olympic Games.
As of the 2008 Games, there are 123 countries that have won medals. There being 205 countries that will participate in the 2008 Games, that leaves 82 countries that have not won a medal. These countries send very small teams to the Olympics and don't have the training facilities that the larger countries have. Some of the countries that will participate in the 2008 Games that have not won a medal include Madagascar, Lesotho, Botswana, Maldives, Swaziland, and Papua New Guinea.
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* Of or relating to the Olympic Games * Olympian: of the region of Olympia in Greece or its inhabitants * Of or pertaining to Olympus, a mountain of Thessaly, fabled as the seat of the gods, or to Olympia, a small plain in Elis; Of or pertaining to the Olympic Games
Total number of coutries that participated in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games were 199. Three countries made their debut - Eitrea, Micronesia and Palau. Micronesia consists of thousands small islands in the Western Pacific.
1 gold medal has been awarded to the small island Grenada in the London Olympic games 2012.
No, Malta is to small to hold the Olympics.
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