Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/49

... that Chinese Olympic gold medalist and flagbearer Xu Lijia nearly died at age 12 and missed the Athens Olympics because of a tumor?
... that 2012 Indian Olympic high jumper Sahana Kumari qualified for the Games after breaking the eight-year-old national record?
... that Mollie Phillips was the first woman to carry the flag and lead out her national team at an Olympic Games?
... that David Bond took eight weeks of unpaid leave from his job in order to become one of three gold medallists for the British team at the 1948 Summer Olympics?
... that Pindar's First Olympian Ode celebrates victory at the Olympic Games to the strains of the phorminx?