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... that in 2008, Edwin Ekiring became the first badminton player to compete for Uganda at the Olympics?
... that the 1988 Winter Olympics saw the first appearance of a Jamaican team at a Winter Olympics, and would go on to inspire the film Cool Runnings?
... that East German Ortrun Enderlein was the first Olympic gold medalist in women's luge?
... that Georgina Harland suffered a stress fracture to her leg only two weeks before the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she won a bronze medal in modern pentathlon?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic diver Jaele Patrick only took up the sport at fifteen following a gymnastics injury?

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