- ... that, at the 2012 Olympics, Alaaeldin Abouelkassem of Egypt became the first representative of an African nation to win an Olympic fencing medal?
- ... that 2012 Olympian Kelsey Titmarsh is a member of the first Canadian women's rhythmic gymnastics all-around group to qualify for the Olympics?
- ... that Käthe Krauß won bronze in the 100 metres in the 1936 Summer Olympics and was on the German women's sprint relay team that set a world record in the heats, but dropped the baton in the final race?
- ... that Andrea St. Bernard is the first Grenadian taekwondo practitioner to be selected for an Olympic Games?
- ... that the Japanese Olympic Committee did not like the suggestion that the 1940 Summer Olympics torch relay could go through China?