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National Olympic Committees (NOCs)FAST FACTSKey facts and fi gures from inside the Olympic MovementNOCs around the world 206 NOCs from fi ve continents 54 from Africa 50 from Europe 44 from Asia 41 from Americas 17 from OceaniaNOCs at the Summer GamesNOCs at the Winter Games558The USA NOC boasted the biggest delegation of athletes at the Olympic Games Rio 2016294 WOMEN264MEN1894 Having been founded in 1894, France, Greece and the USA have the oldest NOCs1979The Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) was founded in 19792015 South Sudan is the newest NOC after gaining offi cial recognition in 2015The USA NOC won its 1,000th gold medal in Olympic history in Rio, in the women’s 4x100m medley relay (aquatics)1 The NOC of Tuvalu had the smallest delegation in Rio, with 100m sprinter Etimoni Timuani the country’s only representative at the Games28Australia, France, Great Britain, Greece and Switzerland have been represented at all 28 editions of the summer GamesNOCs at the YOGNOCs at Nanjing 2014203NOCs at Lillehammer 201671* Information sourced from IOC reports and olympic.org82 OLYMPIC REVIEW