Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/54

... that Yi Siling was both the first person to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics and the first person to win a gold medal at the Games?
... that 2012 Olympic BMX rider Caroline Buchanan was one of Australia's best BMX riders in 2008 but could not compete in Beijing because her youth made her ineligible?
... that George Larner is the only gold medallist in the history of the Olympic Games in the men's 3,500 metres and 10 miles walk?
... that Vicky Holland, who competed in triathlon for Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics, only took up the sport in her second year of university?
... that Heather Stanning's gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics was predicted in her school yearbook?