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?