to show who is the best at sport
so many countries...i think:)
There were 204 countries in the parade of nations. So 204!
Greece was the country that started the Olympics so they won in the first olympics.
It's in the Olympics, with many countries competing, so I guess that would qualify it as being international :)
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.
London, England is going to be the only countrie to have held the Olympics three times. So far they have held it in 1908 and 1948. In 2012 they will be holding the Olympics again. Many countries have held the Olympics twice. Such as Greece and Australia.
We need to learn about the Olympics so we have a better inderstanding about our countries history in sport and sportsmanship.
It's in the Olympics, with many countries competing, so I guess that would qualify it as being international :)
I think the earliest that China was in the olympic games was in 1956. go search wikipedia for it and scroll down to the list of participating countries. Australia was involved in the very first of the modern Olympic games in 1896 (although this is a debatable point). They have participated in every Olympics since, one of only a couple of countries to do so.
60 olympics held so far
Because it involved so many countries in so many parts of the world. WW1 was 1914 to 1918. WW2 1939 to 1945
204 National Olympic Committees participated in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Not all of these committees represent a sovereign nation, however. Vatican City and Kosovo were two countries that did not participate, and Brunei (who does have a NOC) also did not participate in the Olympics that year. So in total, 192 countries participated in addition to 12 dependent/autonomous territories. The 2008 Beijing Olympics were the first Olympics that Serbia and Montenegro competed in separately, and were also the first Olympics for the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu.