Chile at the 2004 Summer Olympics Chile at the 2004 Summer Olympics Chile competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. Chilean athletes have competed at every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, except the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott. Chilean Olympic Committee (, "COCH") sent a total of 22 athletes to the Games, 16 men and 6 women, to compete in 11 sports; the nation's team size was roughly smaller from Sydney by almost half of the athletes, due to the absence
Olympic Games the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, Guttmann brought 400 athletes to compete in the "Parallel Olympics", which became known as the first Paralympics. Since then, the Paralympics have been held in every Olympic year. Since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, the host city for the Olympics has also played host to the Paralympics. In 2001 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) signed an agreement guaranteeing that host cities would be contracted to manage both the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The agreement came into effect at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, and