Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/23


 * ... that basketball center Jānis Krūmiņš won 1956 Olympic silver only three years after he started playing basketball?
 * ... that in 1904, gymnast George Eyser won six Olympic medals, including gold in the vault, even though he had a wooden prosthesis for a leg?
 * ... that professional wrestler Olímpico`s ring name was inspired by the 1992 Summer Olympics?
 * ... that Zali Steggall was the first Australian to win an individual medal at the Winter Olympics?
 * ... that the Zappas Olympics were a series of four athletic contests held in Athens between 1859 and 1889 and are considered as precursors to the modern Olympic Games?