Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/50

... that former British Olympic bronze medallist Kate Allenby became a PE teacher after she retired from professional sport?
... that Haitian runner Dieudonné LaMothe said he completed the marathon at the 1984 Summer Olympics in fear for his life?
... that German sculptor Walter Lemcke designed the first Olympic torch for the 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay, which began the tradition of taking the Olympic Flame to the host city?
... that the wrestling match between Alfred Asikainen and Martin Klein at the 1912 Summer Olympics lasted eleven hours and forty minutes?
... that the first Winter Olympic torch relay did not carry the Olympic Flame?