Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/39

... that 1932 Olympic racewalking champion Tommy Green was unable to walk for the first five years of his life because he was afflicted with rickets?
... that foliage from the Australian rainforest tree Grevillea baileyana was used in the floral arrangements handed to medal winners at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney?
... that Czechoslovakian Olympic water polo player Kurt Epstein survived two Nazi concentration camps?
... that former Elitserien and National Hockey League player Håkan Loob was one of the first members of the Triple Gold Club, winning the Stanley Cup, World Championship and Olympic gold?
... that Michael Plumb was the first equestrian inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame?