Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/52

... that, at the 2012 Olympics, Alaaeldin Abouelkassem of Egypt became the first representative of an African nation to win an Olympic fencing medal?
... that 2012 Olympian Kelsey Titmarsh is a member of the first Canadian women's rhythmic gymnastics all-around group to qualify for the Olympics?
... that Käthe Krauß won bronze in the 100 metres in the 1936 Summer Olympics and was on the German women's sprint relay team that set a world record in the heats, but dropped the baton in the final race?
... that Andrea St. Bernard is the first Grenadian taekwondo practitioner to be selected for an Olympic Games?
... that the Japanese Olympic Committee did not like the suggestion that the 1940 Summer Olympics torch relay could go through China?