Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/54


 * ... that Yi Siling was both the first person to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics and the first person to win a gold medal at the Games?
 * ... that 2012 Olympic BMX rider Caroline Buchanan was one of Australia's best BMX riders in 2008 but could not compete in Beijing because her youth made her ineligible?
 * ... that George Larner is the only gold medallist in the history of the Olympic Games in the men's 3,500 metres and 10 miles walk?
 * ... that Vicky Holland, who competed in triathlon for Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics, only took up the sport in her second year of university?
 * ... that Heather Stanning gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics was predicted in her school yearbook?