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Luxembourg, whose NOK, the Comité Olympique et Sportif Luxembourgeois, was founded in 1912, has taken part in almost all the Summer Games since 1912. Luxembourg was represented at the Winter Games for the first time in 1928.
Only at the 1932 Summer Games in Los Angeles did Luxembourg not participate. Luxembourg did not support the boycott of the 1980 Moscow Games, but did not participate under its national flag, but under the Olympic flag. At the Winter Games, Luxembourg has so far sent only irregular delegations with few participants.
A total of 465 participants were sent. Luxembourgish athletes won a total of four medals.
Michel Théato, who had won the marathon at the 1900 Paris Games, was only subsequently found to have Luxembourg nationality. Previously it had been assumed that he was French. The IOC still counts his victory for France today.
The first official medalist was thus weightlifter Joseph Alzin in 1920, who won the silver medal in the heavyweight event. In 1952, track and field athlete Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500-metre race, the second medal for Luxembourg at the Olympic Games. At the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, two more silver medals were added, won by Marc Girardelli in the giant slalom and the super-G.
