By: The Associated Press (AP)
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The gender balance at the Summer Olympics is changing.

The International Olympic Committee says Thursday that 44 percent of the athletes competing in London are women. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, women made up only 24 percent of participants.

The London games are also the first Olympics where all 204 nations have sent a female athlete.

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