Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/84

... that Abudureheman Abulikemu was the first boxer from Xinjiang to compete at the Olympics?
... that Rānui Ngārimu helped weave Te Māhutonga (the Southern Cross), the Māori cloak worn by the flag bearer of the New Zealand Olympic team since 2004?
... that after winning Olympic bronze in bobsleigh, "Paddy" Green went on to RAF night-fighter fame that won him awards from the US and Soviet Union?
... that after being told that women could not compete in athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics, the FSFSF set up their own Women's Olympiad?
... that John Moffet set an Olympic swimming record despite injuring himself during the same race?