That would depend on the country or the regime he is or was representing at the time. Most athletes will be safe nowadays, but a famous example was Uday, the son of the late Saddam Hussein of Iraq and minister of sports of Iraq. While in power, he had a habit of punishing and torturing Iraqi athletes who in his eyes underperformed in the Olympic Games or in other international games.
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436 athletes. A total Olympic delegation of 750.
There are 184 athletes in the Dutch (Netherlands) olympic team
There were total of 11,196 athletes in 2008 Beijing Olympics
There are many thousands of them. It would not be practical to list them here.
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453 Athletes
That would depend on how much the athlete has
If the olympic games ended they would still do what they are doing like training but they just couldn't go in the olympic games.
463 athletes represented Germany in the 2008 Olympic Games.
Some athletes have dual citizenship and will compete for the country in which they can make the Olympic team.