Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/78

• ... that Traci Hunter Abramson used her experience as a swim coach and a CIA employee to write Undercurrents, a novel about an Olympic-hopeful swimmer in witness protection?
• ... that Abebe Bikila set a world record winning the 1960 Men's Olympic marathon, running barefoot?
• ... that during the tug of war at the 1900 Olympics, a journalist was drafted into the gold medal winning team?
• ... that tango music composer Cátulo Castillo was once featherweight champion of Argentina, and went to the 1924 Summer Olympics?
• ... that Jamaican sprinter Dominique Blake was accidentally awarded a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's 4 × 400 m relay?