Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/80

... that Charles Jewtraw was the first Winter Olympics gold medallist, winning the 500 m speed skating event at the 1924 Games?
... that the two competitors for Cyprus at the 2010 Winter Olympics are siblings?
... that Edward Frank Gillett competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics the year after he died?
... that the first ever Indonesian Olympic team included a high jump athlete who later became a lieutenant colonel?
... that referee Bob Nadin said he was referred to as the "pope of the rules", and received the Pierre de Coubertin medal for ice hockey at the Olympic Games?

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