The chart and graph below give information about participants who have entered the Olympics since it began. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The provided illustrations depict Olympic participation from 1924 to 2012 with a 30-year interval between data points.

First,

the bar chart distinguishes the

athletes

by gender, depicting their respective numbers in the contest.

Second,

the line chart shows the total

number

of

athletes

who competed.

Overall

, men have outnumbered females since the beginning of the Olympics, and there is a similar trend continuing with a gradual increase in total

number

of

athletes

at each interval.

On the other hand

, in 2012, there was a significant growth in the

number

of female contestants, leading to a rapid increase in the total

number

of participants. Generally speaking in the Olympics males predominate throughout the years. The lowest

number

of competitors participating in the Olympics was in 1924, with a total of 3,000

athletes

; only men participated that year. In the following thirty years, there was a slight growth, around 5000 hundred competitors in total, with a participation of 500 females. The

last

year registered a considerable rise in competitors, with more than 10,000

athletes

, of which 6.000 were men, and the remaining

number

were female

athletes

.