Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/42

... that Olympic silver and bronze medalist Stacey Porter (pictured) was the first Aboriginal member of the Australian women's national team to represent the country in softball at the Olympics?
... that Queensland teacher Jodie Bowering is also an Australian Olympic bronze medalist in softball?
... that Dorothy Manley took unpaid leave from her job as a typist to compete in the 1948 Summer Olympics, where she won the silver medal in the women's 100 metres?
... that the Moucherotte, in France, was the location of the ski-jumping events of the 1968 Winter Olympics?
... that despite being nicknamed the "relay of peace", the 1948 Summer Olympics torch relay involved the torch being carried on three warships?