Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/45

... that Lucinda Whitty, Olivia Price and Nina Curtis became a team in 2011 when they heard the Elliott 6m boat would be required for an Olympic sailing event?
... that after Irishman Con O'Kelly won a gold medal for Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics, he was paraded through Hull on the back of a fire engine?
... that after winning the silver medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics, Finn Yrjö Saarela won the gold medal in heavyweight wrestling at the 1912 Games?
... that Nicola Wilson and Opposition Buzz were selected for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics after Piggy French was forced to withdraw?
... that 1976 Yugoslav Olympic rifle shooter Miro Sipek is the Australian 2012 Summer Paralympic rifle coach and has coached Australian Olympic rifle teams?