Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/49


 * ... that Chinese Olympic gold medalist and flagbearer Xu Lijia nearly died at age 12 and missed the Athens Olympics because of a tumor?
 * ... that 2012 Indian Olympic high jumper Sahana Kumari qualified for the Games after breaking the eight-year-old national record?
 * ... that Mollie Phillips was the first woman to carry the flag and lead out her national team at an Olympic Games?
 * ... that David Bond took eight weeks of unpaid leave from his job in order to become one of three gold medallists for the British team at the 1948 Summer Olympics?
 * ... that Pindar's First Olympian Ode celebrates victory at the Olympic Games to the strains of the phorminx?