# Olympic Rules...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-rules/630807>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [August 8, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-rules/630807 "2012-08-08T00:27:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![robertgreenwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f19dbf/32.png) [@robertgreenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertgreenwood)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olympic-rules/630807/1 "2012-08-08T00:27:15Z")

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I LOVE LOOPHOLES AND BENDING RULES!!!

Is there anything in the Olympic rules to actually say a country’s athelite has to be a human being?

It might be against the “Olympic Spirit” to say, enter a Greyhound for Team GB’s 100m, but is there an actual rule against it?

😃