Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/23

... that basketball center Jānis Krūmiņš won 1956 Olympic silver only three years after he started playing basketball?
... that in 1904, gymnast George Eyser won six Olympic medals, including gold in the vault, even though he had a wooden prosthesis for a leg?
... that professional wrestler Olímpico's ring name was inspired by the 1992 Summer Olympics?
... that Zali Steggall was the first Australian to win an individual medal at the Winter Olympics?
... that the Zappas Olympics were a series of four athletic contests held in Athens between 1859 and 1889 and are considered as precursors to the modern Olympic Games?