Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/56


 * ... that 2012 British Olympic shooter James Huckle took up the sport after his father bought a rifle to deal with a rat problem?
 * ... that to deprive his body of oxygen in the five months before the Olympic trials, Olympic steeplechaser Donald Cabral spent over 10 hours a day in a high-altitude tent he bought on Craigslist?
 * ... that racewalker Emerson Esnal Hernández, who is represented El Salvador at the 2012 Olympic Games, started competing in athletics after accompanying a shy friend to tryouts?
 * ... that 2012 Olympic judo competitor Wodjan Shaherkani is required to be accompanied by a male guardian during the Games?
 * ... that at the 1936 Summer Olympics, Tilly Fleischer became the first German woman to win a gold medal?