Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/18


 * ... that the People's Republic of China made its Olympic debut at the 1952 Summer Games, but the team arrived in Helsinki too late to compete except for one race by a single swimmer?
 * ... that Tim Morehouse, a member of the U.S. fencing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, originally took up fencing in order to be excused from his high school gym class?
 * ... that flatwater canoer Vladas Česiūnas was forcibly returned by the KGB to the Soviet Union out of fear that he would publish a book on doping in the Soviet Union prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics?
 * ... that British fencer Mary Glen-Haig was the first female member of the International Olympic Committee?
 * ... that the Marshall Islands, Montenegro, and Tuvalu made their first Olympic appearance at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing?