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Australia has competed at every Summer Olympics and all Winter Olympics except 1924, 1928, 1932, and 1948.
Australia has been in every summer Olympics and some of the winter Olympics.
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4,955 athletes from 69 countries competed in the 1952 Summer Games in Helsinki.
There was no Summer Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2002. That was a year for only the Winter Olympics. 78 different countries competed in those Winter Games.
New Zealand has competed in 23 Summer Olympics, the first being in 1908 combining their athletes with Australia's and competing under the name Australasia. New Zealand has competed in 13 Winter Olympics, the first being in 1952.
The only countries that have been to all Summer Olympics are Australia, Great Britain, France, Switzerland and Greece. Since the first Winter Olympics in 1924 only Switzerland, France and Great Britain have take part in each Winter Games. So three nations have competed at all Summer and Winter Olympics - Switzerland, France and Great Britain.
Hi, Paul Narracott became the first Australian to compete at both the Summer and Winter Olympics: he had competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics in athletics, and participated in bobsleigh in 1992. Hope it helps!
There were two Olympics in 1988 Summer Olymics Seoul Games, 160 nations competed and 8391 athletes Winter Olympics Calgary '88, 57 nations competed and 1,423 athletes
As a separate country Belarus has competed in the '96, '00, '04, and the '08 summer games. They have also competed in the '94, '98, '02 and the '06 winter games. A year after they declared independence from the ussr they competed with eleven other former ussr countries on a unified team in the '92 Summer Olympics.
there were only two countries that competed in the first official summer games. Canada and the USA. also only 26 states competed from the USA. it was held on July 19 & 20, 1968.
There were no Winter Olympics in 2004.