Number of Olympic athletes?
Can someone tell me where I can find current and historical information about the number of Olympic athletes each country has sent to the Olympics?
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What influenced Justin Gatlin?
The 2006 Winter Olympics by the numbers:252: Number of medals to be awarded
2,500: Number of athletes participating
85: Number of countries participating
12: Number of countries that have participated in every Winter Games
171: Number of medals won by athletes who work for Home Depot (including summer and Paralympics)
1: Number of U.S. athletes known to have competed as a piece of meat (Chris Witty, who ran costumed as an Italian sausage in a Milwaukee Brewers Sausage Race)
81: Highest mph speed limit on Italian highways
80: Average mph speed of a downhill skier
10,000: Number of credentialed journalists
416: Number of hours of television coverage
7: Number of NBC networks showing coverage
13: Number of medals Italy got in 2002 Salt Lake City Games (four gold, four silver, five bronze)
34: Number of medals U.S. got in 2002 Salt Lake City Games (10 gold, 13 silver, 11 bronze)
42: The average weight, in pounds, of a curling stone
90: Number of medals Italian athletes have won in Winter Games (31 gold, 31 silver, 28 bronze)
191: Number of medals won by U.S. athletes in Winter Games (69 gold, 71 silver, 51 bronze)
56: Number of medals won by the U.S. team in its best event, speed skating
29: Number of medals won by the Italian team in its best event, cross-country skiing
215: Approximate number of U.S. athletes competing at Torino
2.2 million: Number of people who live in Torino, the largest city ever to host a Winter Olympics
6: Events added to the 2006 Winter Games (men's and women's speed skating pursuit, men's and women's snowboard cross, men's and women's biathlon mass start)
263: Medals won by Norway, the top podium-taker in the Winter Olympics (not counting the 300 medals won by East and West Germany when combined with the single Germany's tally or the 275 won by the U.S.S.R./Unified Team/Russia)
1: Number of athletes competing at Torino who have also medaled at Summer Games (Clara Hughes, Canada, bronze in 5,000 meter speed skating, 2002, and bronze in time trial and road race cycling events, 1996)
6: Number of medals won by speed skater Bonnie Blair, top U.S. medal winner at Winter Games (five gold, one bronze)
32: The number of worldwide partners/official sponsors of the 2006 Winter Olympics
Who was the first Indian to win an individual medal in Olympics?
here is the final Olympic Medal Count, but that's all I have.http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/torino2...
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