Olympic Hotspots
The table below ranks American states based on the number of Olympic athletes participating in the Paris Olympics, adjusted for population size. Highlighting the states with the highest ratio of Olympic athletes to their population in first place.
| Ranking | State | Number of Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Washington D.C. | 4 |
| 2 | Hawaii | 5 |
| 3 | Colorado | 19 |
| 4 | California | 123 |
| 5 | Vermont | 2 |
| 6 | Delaware | 3 |
| 7 | Massachusetts | 19 |
| 8 | Montana | 3 |
| 9 | Indiana | 16 |
| 10 | Nevada | 7 |
| 11 | Connecticut | 8 |
| 12 | Wisconsin | 13 |
| 13 | New Jersey | 19 |
| 14 | Pennsylvania | 26 |
| 15 | Illinois | 25 |
| 16 | Maryland | 12 |
| 17 | Washington | 13 |
| 18 | Oregon | 7 |
| 19 | Florida | 35 |
| 20 | Utah | 5 |
| 21 | Ohio | 17 |
| 22 | New Hampshire | 2 |
| 23 | Minnesota | 8 |
| 24 | Michigan | 14 |
| 25 | Georgia | 15 |
| 26 | Alaska | 1 |
| 27 | New York | 26 |
| 28 | Missouri | 8 |
| 29 | Arizona | 9 |
| 30 | Virginia | 10 |
| 31 | Texas | 34 |
| 32 | Tennessee | 8 |
| 33 | South Dakota | 1 |
| 34 | Nebraska | 2 |
| 35 | New Mexico | 2 |
| 36 | Rhode Island | 1 |
| 37 | South Carolina | 4 |
| 38 | Maine | 1 |
| 39 | Mississippi | 2 |
| 40 | Idaho | 1 |
| 41 | North Carolina | 5 |
| 42 | Kentucky | 2 |
| 43 | Louisiana | 2 |
| 44 | Kansas | 1 |
| 45 | Iowa | 1 |
| 46 | Oklahoma | 1 |
| 47 | Alabama | 1 |
| 48 | Arkansas | 0 |
| 49 | North Dakota | 0 |
| 50 | West Virginia | 0 |
| 51 | Wyoming | 0 |
