Mauritania participated in eight Summer Olympic Games between its debut in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Mauritania would participate in the Summer Olympics from 27 July to 12 August 2012. The Mauritania National Olympic Committee (NOC) selected two athletes via wildcards. Usually, an NOC would be able to enter up to 3 qualified athletes in each individual event as long as each athlete met the "A" standard, or 1 athlete per event if they met the "B" standard. However, since Mauritania had no athletes that met either standard, they were allowed to select two athletes, one of each gender, as wildcards. The two athletes that were selected to compete in the London games were Jidou El Moctar, in the men's 200 meters and Aicha Fall in the women's 800 meters. Moctar was flag bearer for the opening ceremony and a LOCOG Games Maker held it for the closing ceremony.