Lebanon competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. 15 competitors, all men, took part in 16 events in 8 sports.
Lebanon competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea. 21 competitors, 19 men and 2 women, took part in 28 events in 8 sports.
Lebanon competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. Nine competitors, all men, took part in eight events in four sports.
Lebanon competed in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England. Eight competitors, all men, took part in nine events in three sports.
Lebanon competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. The nation returned to the Olympic Games after boycotting the 1956 Summer Olympics because of British and French involvement in the Suez Crisis. 19 competitors, all men, took part in 15 events in 6 sports.
Lebanon competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Five competitors, all men, took part in three events in two sports.
Lebanon competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Twelve competitors, all men, took part in 15 events in 7 sports.
Israel has competed at the Olympic Games as a nation since 1952. Its National Olympic Committee was formed in 1933 during the British Mandate of Palestine. Israel has sent a team to each Summer Olympic Games since 1952 and to each Winter Olympic Games since 1994. The country became a member of the European Olympic Committees (EOC) in 1994.
Lebanon's first appearance in the Olympics was in 1936 when a "delegation of officials" attended the Summer Olympics in Berlin. Following the formation of the Lebanese Olympic Committee in 1947, Lebanon participated for the first time at the Olympic Games in 1948, and has sent athletes to compete in all but one Summer Olympic Games since then. Lebanon was one of three nations to boycott the 1956 Games in protest of the British and French involvement in the Suez Crisis. Lebanon has also participated in most Winter Olympic Games since 1948, missing only the 1994 and 1998 Winter Games.
Lebanon sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Lebanon sent a delegation to compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 12–28 February 2010. This was Lebanon's 15th appearance at a Winter Olympic Games. The Lebanese team consisted of three alpine skiers. Lebanon has never won a medal at a Winter Olympics, and their best performance in Vancouver was 37th in the women's super-G by Chirine Njeim; Ghassan Achi failed to post a result in either of his races, and Jacky Chamoun finished 54th in her only race.
Lebanon participated in the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore.
Lebanon competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's sixteenth appearance at the Olympics, except the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne as a response to the Suez Crisis.
Lebanon competed at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. The Lebanese team will consist of two athletes in one sport, alpine skiing.
Lebanon competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom from August 29 to September 9, 2012. Lebanese Paralympian, Edward Maalouf, who was sponsored by the British Embassy in Beirut, became the only qualified Paralympic athlete representing Lebanon at the London 2012 Paralympics.
The Lebanese Swimming Federation, is the national governing body of swimming, in Lebanon, founded since 1961.
Lebanon competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's seventeenth appearance at the Summer Olympics. Lebanon did not attend the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne as a response to the Suez Crisis.
Lebanon competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from 9 to 25 February 2018, with three competitors in two sports.
Lebanon participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 6 to 18 October 2018.
