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The graph below shows the participants who have entered Olympics since it began.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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16 days ago
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16 days ago
The given line graph depicts the number of athletes who have participated in Olympics since its inaugral year 1924 till 2004. The unit measured is in number of participants. Overall, there has been a steady increase in the total number participants.The number of male athletes has remained consistently greater than female, however the growth of female athletes participation has seen a steady growth over the years. The total number of participants in the inaugral year was observed to be nearly 3800, which has been mainly comprising of male athletes(3600) and just 200 female athletes. Additionally, in the coming years male participation show a gradual increase with 6000 male athletes, partiipating in the 1984 Olympics. In the same year, even the female athletes participation saw a upsurge of 2000 participants, making the total count to 8000. Futhermore, the year saw a significant rise in the number of athletes where the count reached upto 12000 mark. This was possible because of the significant increase of female athletes (5600). However, the count of male athletes participants was still 800 more compare to female athletes.
Band 6-7
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17 days ago
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
17 days ago
The chart illustrates the number of participation in Olympics starting from 1924 to 2004. In 1924, most of the men were participated in olympics than women, but the count of women gradually increased over the decade. Initially, males showed steady peak in the participation, where as females boosted their participation in the later year. Starting from 1924, males contribution was between 2000-4000, which shoot up after 20 years between 4000-6000 participants in 1944. After this, entries by men slowed down and were remained around 6000 i.e., in 1964 males were just below 6000, in 1984, they attained 6000 participations and in 2004 they were just above 6000. On the other hand, participations by females turned out very less as compared to males in the year 1924, i.e., between 0-2000, but more towards 0. In later years women started participating accounting towards 2000 in 1964. In 1984, they achieved a number of 2000, later suddenly they rocketed to around 6000 entries in 2004
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
18 days ago
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
18 days ago
The line graph illustrates the number of athletes taken part into Olympics from the year 1924 to 2004. The unit of measurement is count. Overall, the male participants always exceeds the amount of female participation almost in every year. Moreover, the difference in the last year in significantly less between both the genders, hence the total number of participation rised exponentially. To begin with the male participants gain a slight increase in the year 1944 compared to 1924. Although the upside in the number of men participation is comparatively low, they still have the highest number of involvement in the games which is approximately around 6500. In addition, the female engagement in Olympics wasn't that great in the initial year as it was below 500. However after the year 1984, the women starting participating more into the game beacause of which their count get increased probably by 4000. Additionally, the total number of a individuals involve also had a steep growth from approximately 3000 to precisely 12000.
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
20 days ago
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
20 days ago
The graph illustrates the total number of number of people who have participated in the Olympics since its incepetion. Overall,is is clear that the number of total participants has had a steep increase since it started back in 1924, with a clean indiacation of increase in both male and female players over the years. Firstly, in 1924, there was a total of less than 4000 participants of which almost 3500 were male with a small proportion being female.Moreover, in 1944, there is a noticible increase with 7000 total participants, from where almost 6000 where male; a big jump along with the females having 1000 participants.Furthermore, in 1964, there was a slight increase in male participants with close to 6000 participants being male while the females had close to 2000 participants. Secondly, during the 1984 olympics, there were a total of 8000 athletes of which 6000 comprised of men another incremental increase and the females had 2000 athletes.In addition,in 2004, there were 12000 athletes, we could see an almost even split with both being close to 6000 with the female participants having a massive increase in athletes participating.
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
22 days ago
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
22 days ago
OVERVIEW - THE GRAPH DEPICTS THE PARTICIPANTS WHO INDULGED INTO OLYMPICS SINCE IT BEGAN THAT IS FROM 1924 TO 2004, SPECIFYING LINES OF MALE , FEMALE AND TOTAL . MOREOVER, THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS IS RANGING FROM 0 TO 14000 RESPECTIVELY. BODY 1 - THERE IS RED LINE INDICATING THE NUMBER OF FEMALE PARTICIPANTS. IN 1924, THE FIGURE IS SLIGHTLY MORE THAN 0 WHEREAS IN 1944THE NUMBER IS INCTREASED TO 1000. THERE IS RISING GRAPH AS IT IS ILLUSTRATING FIGURE MORE THAN `1000 IN THE YEAR 1964. THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS IS EXACT 2000 IN THE YEAR 1984 AND RELATIVELY HIGHER IN 2004 THAT SHOWS FIGURE NEAR TO 6000 NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS. BODY 2 - THERE IS ALSO A BLUE LINE INDICATING FOR MALE INVOLVEMENT INTO THE OLYMPICS. AT BEGINNING IN THE YEAR 1924, IT SHOWS THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS 3000 AND DRASCTICALLY INCREASED IN THE YEAR 1944 FROM 3000 TO 5000 NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS. IN 1964, THERE IS SLIGHT INCREASE WHICH DEPICTS THE NUMBER 5500 PARTICIPANTS AND IN YEAR 1984 , ITS SHOWS 6000 ACCURATELY. LASTLY, IN 2004, THE NUMBER HAS BEEN INCREASED TO 6200 . BODY 3 - THEREFORE , THE TOTAL GRAPH INTO COMPARISON SHOWS RISING GRAPH IN OLYMPICS, WHICH STATES THAT IN THE YEAR 2004 , IT IS INCREASED TO HIGHER NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS THAT IS 12000.
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Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
3 months 3 days ago
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
3 months 3 days ago
The graph depicts the volume of players who have joined the Olympics since its time of commencement. The units are measured in thousands. Overall, it is evident that the number of both male and female players grew in line with each other from the year 1944 to 1984. Amongst the female athletes, there is a steady growth, increasing from less than five hundred to nearly two thousand players in the span of sixty years. Surprisingly, from the year 1984, there is a noticeable peak in the number of female players, reaching approximately six thousand players as they are nearly on par with the number of male athletes for the year 2004. On the other hand, the figures for male participants throughout the year are comparatively higher than those of women players. The numbers have started off from nearly 2,500, increasing by another thousand players in next 20 years and have further displayed slow growth in figures all throughout the years. However, in aggregate, the volume of players go on increasing every 20 years with a heightened figure of precisely 12,000 players participating in the 2004 Olympics.
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
3 months 3 days ago
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
3 months 3 days ago
The graph illustrates the number of athelets who have entered the olympics since the beginning. The graph is between 1924 to 2004, the blue color,red color and green color signifies male, female and total respectively.number of participants range from 0 to 14000. Overall,we can see the number of total athelets entered have significantly increased between 1984 to 2004.The same pattern can be observed with the women participants ,there is a visible hike between 1984 to 2004. It can be observed that the in the year 1924 the women participants were very less compared to women.Women participants have never been more according to the graph,but still managed to come closer in 2004. The year 2004 has the highest participants which is around 12000, where men were slightly above 6000 and women being slightly below.
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
3 months 3 days ago
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
3 months 3 days ago
The line graph illustrates the number of males and females participated in the olympics held between 1924 and 2004. The chart also details the total number of the participants. Overall, the olympics is dominated by the male participation across the entire time period. There has been substantial increase in both male and female participants during the recent years. It can be observed that there are about 4000 males took part in the olympics in the year 1924, followed by an increase of 2000 male particpants in the next two decades. There was a moderate rise in the number of males, which reached approximately 8000 in 1984. Following this there was a sudden surge in the data, reaching 12000 by 2004. There was a constant growth in the number of female participants from 1924 to 1984, ranging from 500 to 2000 participants. A steep rise was evident in the data for the last 20 years, increasing from 2000 to 5800 participants. The total number of people participating in the olympics tripled from about 4000 in 1924 to 12000 in 2004.
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
3 months 3 days ago
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
3 months 3 days ago
The graph illustrates athletes who have participated in the Olympics from its beginning year, 1924, till the year 2004. Units are measeured as number of participants. Overall, the highest participants attended in the Olympics, was the year 2004. Men participants are always more in throught out the years, when compared with women, but, in 2004, women participants were almost as equal as men. Initially, in the year1924, the total head count of athletes was almost 4000, with men having high ratio (about 3000) than women (below 1000) in participation. However, in 2004, women have nearly 6000 candidates, and men having just above 6000 candidates, making them both almost equal, with total 12000 participations. Men had high increase in number of athletes in the year 1944, with nearly 5000 members, but had slight improvement in the years 1964 and 1984 (count just below 6000 and exactly 6000). The women athletes, had very little increase in the participation, that is, nearly 1000, just below 2000 and 2000 participants, in the years 1944, 1964 and 1984. With this, total number of athletes participated for the following years 1944, 1964 and 1984 are 6000, around 7000, and 8000 participations.
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
3 months 3 days ago
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
3 months 3 days ago
The graph depicts the number of individuals who participated in Olympics over a span of 80 years starting from 1924 to 2004. Overall, the count of male and female participants have notably increased throughout the years. In particular, the participant's number has surged in the recent years, this is due to the corresponding increase in the female players. To begin with, around 3000 male players took part in 1924 Olympics contribiting the majority of head count, later in 1944 the count inclined to 5000. After that, there was a steady increase in the number of male participants reaching a peak of approximately 6300 in 2004. On the other hand, initially in 1924 the number of female participants involved almost 500. The number gradually reached 2000 in 1984 and in the last 20 years, the count skyrocketed to 5800 in 2004 and was very close to the male players. Meanwhile, the total count of players attainted a peak of 12000 players in 2004 which was due to the sudden increase in involvement of female players.
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
3 months 5 days ago
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
3 months 5 days ago
The graph illustrates the trend of Olympics participants since it begun in the year 1924, till the year 2004. It shows the overall, as well as gender-specific pattern of participants entering the event, denoted by a total of three line graphs. The overall number of participants increased from about 3500 participants in 1924, to a grand total of close to 12000 participants in the year 2004. There were two key periods of steep increase in participants, from 1924 to 1944, and a sligtly steeper increase from 1984 to 2004. The overall contribution of male participants has always been significantly higher than that of female participants, up till 2004, where the numbers have almost equalized. There were about 3000 male participants in the first Olympics in 1924, which constituted the majority of the participants that year. There was a slight increase in participants from then to 1944, which resultantly increased the total number of partipants as well. There has been progression in number of male participants across the years post 1944, but the numbers have not had any significant spike or drop. The graph of female participants in the Olympics shows a varying trend, quite different from that of male participants. The first Olympics had just a few hundred participants, and although there is evident progression in numbers of female participants through the years, and at a higher rate than that of male participants, the overall number of female participants has always been much lower than their male counterparts by at least 2000. This did however change between 1984 to 2004, where there was a sharp increase in female players entering, from about 2000 participants in 1984, to close to 6000 in the year 2004, bringing about an almost equally distribution of male and female particpants in the 2004 Olympics, The overall increase of participants can also be attributed to the rise in female particpation in the Olympics. Overall, there has been a large increase of Olympic participants across the years, which initially started with a major male population, and has since evolved to a more even distribution of the genders post the rise in female participation post 1984.
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
3 months 5 days ago
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
3 months 5 days ago
The graph illustrates the number of atheletes of have taken part in the Olympics since 1924 when it was first conducted till 2004. Overall, it is shown that total number of participants has spiked drastically over this span of time. Moreover, the number of male players in the debut years were considerably higher than females and this trend continues to be seen unitl present (2004). However, this number came very close to each other in that last 20 years. It is observed that the number of females in the year 1924 was approximately 700 which had a constant increment over the year until 1984 reaching upto 2000. On the other hand, the number of male athletes in 1924 was comparitively much higher, about 2500 which also continued to increase to 6000 players in 1984. This number then shot up for female athletes by almost 3 times reaching close to 6000 and for men only a small increase was seen which was about 6500 bringing both to only a small difference. Futhermore, we also see the trend of total number of competing athletes starting from about 3000 and doubling to about 6000 by the year 1944. This pace reduced over the next 40 years but added around 2000 players. Additionally, the graph shows a sudden jump in the last 20 years with the numbers going upto 12000 total number of athletes entering in Olympics 2004.
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
3 months 5 days ago
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
3 months 5 days ago
Olympics has had a lot of participants over the years and the graph here represents the number of participants who have entered the Olympics since its begining. The graph gives a clear and detailed view of the count of male, female and the total participants of the Olympics from the year 1924 to 2004. In the beginning era of the Olympics games, there has only been less than 4000 participants, where 3000 participants were male and female participants had a count less than 500. Since 1924, the participation of female athletes have increased steadly reaching a total of 2000 participants in the year 1984, but the participation boomed drastically after that, achieving a massive count of 5500 by the year 2004. In contrast to the female participation data, male participation growth improved during the initial decade, from a count lesser than 3000 to a massive 5000 participation. Soon after the year 1944, the participation growth rate declined, resulting the male participation count to have a slow and steady growth and reaching 6200 participants in total in the year 2004.
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
3 months 5 days ago
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
3 months 5 days ago
The graph illustrates the participants who have entered the Olympics from 1924 to 2004. The total number of participants has significantly increased since the beginning of the Olympics. There were around a total of 4000 participants in 1924, which almost tripled in 2024 to 12000 participants. The number of participants increased from 1924 to 1944, then there was a slight increase in the number of participants from 1944 to 1984 accounting for a rise in 2000 participants. From 1984 to 2004, there was a sudden increase in the total number of participants from 8000 to 12000. The number of male participants in 1924 was around 3000, which increased to around 5000 in 1944. After that, there was a steady increase in the number of male participants over the period of 1944 to 2004. In the early days of the Olympics, the number of female participants was quite insignificant. However, there was a gradual increase in the number of female participants from 500 to 2000 over the period of 1924 to 1984. Then there was a steep increase in the number of female participants to around 6000 in 2004.
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
3 months 5 days ago
Band 6-7
IELTS Learner
3 months 5 days ago
The line graph depicts the Olympic contestants since its commencement in the year 1924, for every 20 years, till 2004. This is categorised by the gender of contestants for making comparisons. Overall, there is a drastic escalation in the total number of participants over the 80 years analysed, from under 4000 to a significant figure of 12000. At first glance, the male demographic reveals a higher proportion compared to females at all times showing a dynamic disparity, which decreases majorly over the years, with a slight gap in 2004. On the one hand, there was a steady increase in female contestants at the same rate till 1984, however, the rate upsurges exponentially from 2000 to 4000 contestants in just one Olympic tournament event. On the other hand, a reverse trend is shown in males. The rate is greater in the beginning years (roughly 3000 to 5000 participants after the first event) to a more gradual growth later touching almost 7000 over 3 Olympic events' periods.


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