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.
To try out for the Olympic Games, athletes typically go through a qualification process specific to their sport and country. This process varies but usually involves competing in national and international qualifying events. Athletes must meet the qualification standards set by their sport's international governing body and be selected by their national Olympic committee to represent their country in the Games.
The ancient Greeks, particularly the Spartans and Athenians, developed the Olympic games out of the practice of competing just for the fun and challenge of competing.
1924 Games in Chamonix. Italy had 23 athletes to competing in ski jumping, cross country skiing, bobsleigh, and military ski patrol. They won no medals.
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104 athletes are competing in the Olympics games for Brazil 2012
The number of athletes competing in the 1932 Olympic games fell because the weather at Lake Placid extreme and less than half of the athletes that competed in the 1928 Olympics could attend.
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11,028 athletes competing in the Beijing Olympics
more than 10,000 athletes
There were 277 Canadian athletes competing at the Summer Olympic Games in London 2012. The official London 2012 site, however, has 281 athletes listed throughout all sports.
463 athletes represented Germany in the 2008 Olympic Games.
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Iraqi athletes are competing in rowing and athletics at the 2008 Games in Beijing.
No athletes from Fiji are competing in the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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