What are the requirements to represent a country in the Olympics?

Question

Do you need to be born there or have citizenship there?

Answer 1

I beleive it must be just citizenship because when I was watching the table tennis last night they said most of the Singapore team was born in China but need to move to other countries to have a chance at competing.

Answer 2

to be a citizen then beat the best of the best in your choosen event,even  breast feeding has a olympic record to beat now!

Answer 3

You can actually have citizenship, or your family (parents, grandparents) could have had citizenship.  That's why you'll see a lot of people who were born in the US and have US citizenship competing for other countries.

Answer 4

citizenship

Answer 5

citizenship and you have to qualify for that certain country which is why some athletes from a country like the U.S. get dual citizenship and compete for a not so big nation.