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New England and the Olympic Games
New England has been a member of the International Olympic Committee since 2018, and sent it's first team of twenty-five athletes to the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in New Delhi in 2020. Since that time, the New England Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (NEOCOG) has sent delegations of competing athletes to every summer and winter olympics.
The number of athletes sent by New England has always been small, with less than fifty athletes being sent to all of the olympics held since joining. The refusal to subsidise elite sport by the government has kept the numbers of the New England delegation down, as has the moderate reception given to the games by many people in New England, who see the games as being little more than a spectacle for freakish individuals to compete against one another.
In November 2052, New England plans to send forty-six athletes to the Games of the XL Olympiad in Jerusalem.
