<P> At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Great Britain, for the first time in Olympic history, every country competing included female athletes . Saudi Arabia included two female athletes in its delegation; Qatar, four; and Brunei, one (Maziah Mahusin, in the 400m hurdles). Qatar made one of its first female Olympians, Bahiya al - Hamad (shooting), its flagbearer at the 2012 Games, and runner Maryam Yusuf Jamal of Bahrain became the first Gulf female athlete to win a medal when she won a bronze for her showing in the 1500 m race . </P> <P> The only sport on the Olympic programme that features men and women competing together is the equestrian disciplines . There is no "Women's Eventing", or' Men's Dressage' . As of 2008, there were still more medal events for men than women . With the addition of women's boxing to the programme in the 2012 Summer Olympics, however, female athletes were able to compete in all the same sports as men . In the winter Olympics, women are still unable to compete in the Nordic Combined . There are currently two Olympic events in which male athletes may not compete: synchronised swimming and rhythmic gymnastics . </P> <P> Three Olympiads had to pass without a celebration of the Games because of war: the 1916 Games were cancelled because of World War I, and the summer and winter games of 1940 and 1944 were cancelled because of World War II . The Russo - Georgian War between Georgia and Russia erupted on the opening day of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . Both President Bush and Prime Minister Putin were attending the Olympics at that time and spoke together about the conflict at a luncheon hosted by Chinese president Hu Jintao . When Nino Salukvadze of Georgia won the bronze medal in the 10 metre air pistol competition, she stood on the medal podium with Natalia Paderina, a Russian shooter who had won the silver . In what became a much - publicised event from the Beijing Games, Salukvadze and Paderina embraced on the podium after the ceremony had ended . </P> <P> Terrorism most directly affected the Olympic Games in 1972 . When the Summer Games were held in Munich, Germany, eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September in what is now known as the Munich massacre . The terrorists killed two of the athletes soon after they had taken them hostage and killed the other nine during a failed liberation attempt . A German police officer and five terrorists also perished . </P>

What three olympic games have been held in countries that no longer exist