WINNERS Top Countries at the Summer Olympics
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Top Countries at the Winter Olympics
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Other Olympic Teams and Independent Olympic Athletes
- 1896, 1900, 1904 - Mixed Teams - at the early Olympic games, individual athletes from different countries were allowed to compete in mixed teams.
- 1908, 1912 - Australasia - the combined team of athletes from Australia and New Zealand.
- 1956, 1960, 1964 - United German Team - the united team of athletes from West Germany and East Germany.
- 1980 - Independent Olympic Athletes - some National Olympic Committees wished to attend the Olympiad despite their governments' supporting the American-led boycott. Still, they hesitated to use national flags without government approval, so the IOC relaxed this requirement: 14 NOCs competed under the Olympic flag, while three, New Zealand, Spain, and Portugal, competed under their respective NOCs' flag.
- 1992 - Unified Team - the united team of athletes from ex-republics of the Soviet Union.
- 1992 - Independent Olympic Participants - athletes from Yugoslavia and Macedonia competed as Independent Olympic Participants because Macedonian NOC had not been formed yet, and Yugoslavia was under United Nations sanctions.
- 2000 - Individual Olympic Athletes - four athletes from East Timor competed during the country's transition to independence.
- 2012 - Independent Olympic Athletes - four athletes competed at the Summer Olympics after the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles.
- 2014 - Independent Olympic Participants - the Indian NOC was suspended from the IOC due to problems with its electoral process, and the three Indian athletes participated in a competition.
- 2016 - Refugee Olympic Team - the team of refugee athletes from South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, and Syria.
- 2016 - Independent Olympic Athlete - Kuwaiti athletes competed independently, as the International Olympic Committee suspended the Kuwait Olympic Committee due to governmental interference.
- 2018 - Olympic Athlete from Russia - select Russian athletes were permitted to participate in the Winter Olympics after the Russian Olympic Committee was suspended for doping.
- 2020 - Independent Olympic Participants - the team of 29 refugee athletes from 18 countries competed as independent Olympic participants.
- 2020 - 2022: ROC - Following a decision by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), athletes from Russia competed under the acronym "ROC" (Russian Olympic Committee) without the national flag and anthem.
- 2024 - Refugee Olympic Team - the team of refugee athletes from Republic of the Congo, Sudan, South Sudan, Eritrea, Syria, Ethiopia, Iran, Cameroon, Afghanistan, Cuba, and Venezuela.
- 2024 - Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN) - approved individual Russian and Belarusian athletes.