Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/42


 * ... that Olympic silver and bronze medalist Stacey Porter (pictured) was the first Aboriginal member of the Australian women's national team to represent the country in softball at the Olympics?
 * ... that Queensland teacher Jodie Bowering is also an Australian Olympic bronze medalist in softball?
 * ... that Dorothy Manley took unpaid leave from her job as a typist to compete in the 1948 Summer Olympics, where she won the silver medal in the women's 100 metres?
 * ... that the Moucherotte, in France, was the location of the ski-jumping events of the 1968 Winter Olympics?
 * ... that despite being nicknamed the "relay of peace", the 1948 Summer Olympics torch relay involved the torch being carried on three warships?