Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/48


 * ... that Royal Mail painted a post box gold to commemorate each gold medallist for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
 * ... that 16-year-old Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen won two gold medals and broke two records at the 2012 Olympics?
 * ... that a spectator who threw a bottle at the men's 100 metres race in the 2012 Olympics was immediately confronted by judo bronze medalist Edith Bosch, who happened to be next to him?
 * ... that footballers Scott and Martin Sinclair are the first brothers to represent Great Britain at the Olympics and Paralympics in the same year?
 * ... that the Olympic Flame once burned at 2,000 degrees Celsius to ensure that it stayed alight under water?