Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/24

... that Kwame "The Snow Leopard" Nkrumah-Acheampong is the first Ghanaian to qualify for the Winter Olympics?
... that long distance runner Zersenay Tadese was the first person from Eritrea to win an Olympic medal?
... that Anders Haugen, one of the 104 medalists at the 1924 Winter Olympics, was awarded his bronze medal in ski jumping fifty years after the games ended?
... that athletes in the 1928 Winter Olympics competed in skijoring, a demonstration sport in which the competitors wore skis while being pulled behind horses?
... that Swedish figure skater Gillis Grafström, one of the 83 medal winners at the 1928 Winter Olympics, won the men's individual figure skating competition (pictured) even though he was skating on an injured knee?

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