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== National Olympic Committees participating ==

== National Olympic Committees participating ==

Athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees are participating.<ref>Independent Olympic Athletes from [[South Sudan]], who does not yet have a National Olympic Committee, and the former Netherlands Antilles, who no longer has a National Olympic Committee due to their dissolution, will also compete under the Olympic Flag.</ref>  Sports contests having the greatest political interest are (note especially the growing list of lack of [[public schools]] for the gold medalists below):

Athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees are participating.<ref>Independent Olympic Athletes from [[South Sudan]], who does not yet have a National Olympic Committee, and the former Netherlands Antilles, who no longer has a National Olympic Committee due to their dissolution, will also compete under the Olympic Flag.</ref>   

 

Sports contests having the greatest political interest are (note especially the growing list of lack of [[public schools]] for the gold medalists below):

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|Will countries that have implemented same-sex marriage underperform? (See below for a more lengthy explanation)

|Will countries that have implemented same-sex marriage underperform? (See below for a more lengthy explanation)

|Too early to tell. Listed below are the country's medal totals for the last Olympics prior to implementing same sex-marriage (which can be seen as a fair proxy for their totals this year), along with actual totals for this year so far. Denmark and Sweden have already overperformed, while the Netherlands and Spain are clearly underperforming. For the others, it's too early to tell.  

|Too early to tell. Listed below are the country's medal totals for the last Olympics prior to implementing same sex-marriage (which can be seen as a fair proxy for their totals this year), along with actual totals for this year so far. Denmark, Canada, and Sweden have already overperformed, while the Netherlands and Spain are clearly underperforming. For the others, it's too early to tell.  

: Argentina - 6 in 2008, 1 in 2012  

: Argentina - 6 in 2008, 1 in 2012  

: Belgium - 5 in 2000, 3 in 2012

: Belgium - 5 in 2000, 3 in 2012

: Canada - 12 in 2004, 11 in 2012

: Canada - 12 in 2004, 13 in 2012

: Denmark - 7 in 2008, 8 in 2012

: Denmark - 7 in 2008, 8 in 2012

: Iceland - 1 in 2008, 0 in 2012

: Iceland - 1 in 2008, 0 in 2012

: Netherlands - 25 in 2000, 14 in 2012

: Netherlands - 25 in 2000, 14 in 2012

: Norway - 6 in 2004, 2 in 2012

: Norway - 6 in 2004, 3 in 2012

: Portugal - 2 in 2008, 0 in 2012

: Portugal - 2 in 2008, 1 in 2012

: South Africa - 6 in 2004, 4 in 2012

: South Africa - 6 in 2004, 4 in 2012

: Spain - 19 in 2004, 6 in 2012

: Spain - 19 in 2004, 7 in 2012

: Sweden - 5 in 2008, 7 in 2012

: Sweden - 5 in 2008, 7 in 2012

: Total - 94 expected, 56 actual

: Total - 94 expected, 61 actual

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