Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/47


 * ... that in 2008, Edwin Ekiring became the first badminton player to compete for Uganda at the Olympics?
 * ... that the 1988 Winter Olympics saw the first appearance of a Jamaican team at a Winter Olympics, and would go on to inspire the film Cool Runnings?
 * ... that East German Ortrun Enderlein was the first Olympic gold medalist in women's luge?
 * ... that Georgina Harland suffered a stress fracture to her leg only two weeks before the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she won a bronze medal in modern pentathlon?
 * ... that 2012 Australian Olympic diver Jaele Patrick only took up the sport at fifteen following a gymnastics injury?