There were 962 metals given out for the 302 events. The number of Athletes is much higher because every athlete will get the medal on the winning team or pair. There were Bronze medals awarded to 2 individuals in 56 events and there were also 2 bronze metals upgraded to silver when there were ties for second. 302 gold metals 304 silver medals and 356 bronze medals were won by the athletes. Just in Men's Water Polo the event medals of the Gold Silver and Bronze medals were awarded to 39 athletes and the same for the women's Water Polo. In Football or Soccer the Men and Women's event metals went to 108 athletes who are members of the six medal winning teams. Instead of 12 medals there were 182 athletes who received metals for these 4 events alone
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10,568 (5,892 men, 4,676 women) from 204 Olympic teams competed at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
There are 10,960 athletes competing in London's 2012 Olympics. The UK has the most with 557 athletes, followed by the US with 534 and Russia with 441.
There was no Olympics in 2013.
2012 London Olympics had 10,568 athletes compete.
2014 Sochi Olympics had about 2,800 athletes compete.
Over 10,000 athletes competed.
There were over 10,000 athletes.
There are over 10,000