Yes and for the fun of it considering they are Amateur athletes and do not get payed.
Both amateur and professional athletes go to sports clinics. Additionally non- athletes with athletic impairing conditions also go.
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It was believed that amateur athletes try the hardest to attain feats of strength and endurance. The original Olympic Committee believed professional athletes would have an unfair advantage.
Any country that has athletes that are good enough to compete in Olympic sports.
Georgia is sending 35 athletes to compete in 10 sports at the 2008 Summer Olympics. The sports the Georgian athletes will compete in are Archery, Athletics, Swimming, Boxing, Gymnastics, Judo, Shooting, Volleyball, Weightlifting, and Wrestling.
there are 1000's of disabled of athletes in the world, that compete in sports
France sent 323 athletes to the 2008 Olympics to compete in 23 sports.
Portugal sent a team of 77 athletes that are scheduled to compete in 16 sports.
Five athletes were selected to the team to compete only in 3 different sports.
That are sending 258 athletes to compete in all sports except badminton and field hockey
Athletics, Swimming, and I think Archery. I'm not sure
10,500 athletes are expected to compete in 302 events in 28 sports