Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/50


 * ... that former British Olympic bronze medallist Kate Allenby became a PE teacher after she retired from professional sport?
 * ... that Haitian runner Dieudonné LaMothe said he completed the marathon at the 1984 Summer Olympics in fear for his life?
 * ... that German sculptor Walter Lemcke designed the first Olympic torch for the 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay, which began the tradition of taking the Olympic Flame to the host city?
 * ... that the wrestling match between Alfred Asikainen and Martin Klein at the 1912 Summer Olympics lasted eleven hours and forty minutes?
 * ... that the first Winter Olympic torch relay did not carry the Olympic Flame?