The 12 largest countries at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games: # China - 639 athletes # The United States - 596 athletes # Russia - 467 athletes # Germany - 463 athletes # Australia - 433 athletes # Japan - 351 athletes # Italy - 344 athletes # Canada - 332 athletes # France - 323 athletes # Great Britain - 312 athletes # Spain - 286 athletes # Brazil - 277 athletes
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.
16 in the men's competition and 12 in the women's.
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44 countries participated in the 1924 Summer Olympics. 16 countries participated in the 1924 Winter Olympics.
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12 gold metals, 7 silver metals and 10 bronze metals
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July 27 - August 12
witch countries compete in the winter Olympics 2010
Yes, football will be played at the 2008 Beijing Games. The countries that have won the right to play have already been decided. There will be 16 countries in men's play and 12 countries in women's play. Men's play countries - China Australia South Korea Japan Cameroon Ivory Coast Nigeria Honduras United States Brazil Argentina New Zealand Netherlands Serbia Belgium Italy Women's play countries - China Japan North Korea Nigeria United States Canada Argentina New Zealand Germany Norway Sweden Brazil
Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, Kenya has competed in 15 Olympic Games, 12 Summer Games and 3 Winter Games.