- ... 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?
