how many olympic athletes live in usa compete for other countries?
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I counted at least 10 last night.  They come here to train because their country may not have the nessesary equipment to do so.
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53,896 at last count.  This includes teams from elementary schools all the way up to professional leagues (and also local recreational leagues).   Also included are the handicapped leagues (wheelchair, blind, special olympics, etc.).  \n\nI actually never realized their were that many.
613129
If you assume that the nation with the most medals to have "won" the unofficial champions would be:\n\n(Number of Gold medals take precedence over total medals)\n\n1996\n\n1. USA -------- 101 (44 Gold)\n2. Russia -----  63 (26 Gold)\n3. Germany ----  65 (20 Gold)\n\n2000\n\n1. USA --------  97 (40 Gold)\n2. Russia -----  88 (32 Gold)\n3. China ------  59 (28 Gold)\n\n2004\n\n1. USA -------- 103 (35 Gold)\n2. China ------  63 (32 Gold)\n3. Russia -----  92 (27 Gold)\n\nLookout for China in '08. It looks as if they'll dominate
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Not really, other than an occasional feature on an athlete participating that trains or regularly competes in the US for that local media.\n\nBut what can you expect ... US isn't competing, so it's only natural there wouldn't be as much interest as compared to baseball starting, NFL trades and the approaching draft, the NHL and the NBA all still going on.
459708
There were 14 Olympians from Texas that won a medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Sydney.  Some won multiple medals like 400m specialist Jeremy Wariner of Waco, Texas.  There were a combined 7 gold medals, 4 silver medals, and 4 bronze medals.
490167
Maybe the Americans can have there own Olympics because they seem to only want to play sports that are played by such a small amount of countries. Im sorry your dream is gone for the moment but lets try and even up the playing field and play something thats played at a competitive level in the other 90% of the non americanized parts of the world.
99677
Well there is a speed skater on the U.S team. But really go to the offical website maybe you can find some african americans in the olympics. But hey the games just begun too.. so be patient. But hey I may look white in real life but i'm actally half black so I can relate to what your saying about where the black people are.
1184812
Yes and yes.. Olympics are supposed to be the best athletic competition in the world.. once you start exluding people that are good enough to be paid.. then you lose the best perfromers\n\nI like seeing how olympic athletes earn money by doing what they do.. basketball is the only one that I hate how the US handles it
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No.\n\nAmericans have invented many sports but they are not always the best at them.\n\nLook at basketball.  Who won the last world basketball championship?  Wasn't it Argentina?  And the U.S. came in like 5th.  And the Olympics?\n\nLook at baseball.  The South Koreans won that recently.\n\nLook at volleyball.  No idea who won the last time they had a worldly competition but I'm sure it wasn't the U.S. in the mens' anyway.\n\nIt's true Americans have very good individual players but team and cohesiveness are more important sometimes.
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james,\n\nA country wins ONE medal for each event.  If there are say, two members to a team, ex. two-person luge, each member will get a gold medal.  Statistically however, one medal per event.
154972
you can't just sign up for the olympics you have to be the best of the best in your country otherwise what would the point be of the olympics. you would have to compete in many trials, you would be tooooooooooo late for the 2008 olympics. however you can ask your trainer or look one up on the internet so you can  essentaly try out for them.
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Yes it should and don't criticize it just because you don't understand it. Curling is very popular in many parts of the world, just not so big in the USA. But it was one of the best attended sports at the Turin games, averaging over 90 percent of stadium capacity for every single round. It was also pretty much the only sport to have every match shown on US television, even if it was buried on an smaller cable network instead of the main NBC feed.
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The exact amount of nations that are members of FIFA is 192 nations. Which are the ones who compete for the right to participate in the FIFA World Cup Tournament That's held every four years and allows 32 nations as it finalist to compete. Any Nation that is not a member of FIFA can not participate.
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In what event? \n\nOn average the US is way better than any other country.. but there are fast swimmers everywhere\n\ni would consider Michael Phelps to be the fastest swimmer in the world since he can win the most events, but if you are looking for pure speed the 50m record holder is Alexander Popov from Russia swimming it in 21.6 seconds
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The US - yes.\nDon't know about the others.
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ALMOST ALL COUNTRIES...\nEXCEPT USA.
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AROUND HALF THE GLOBE!!!! 3 BILLION... CHECK THAT NUMBER!! AMERICANS... ITS THE BEST SPORT IN THE WORLD!!