- ... that judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney qualified for the 1906 and 1908 Summer Olympics, but did not attend either, and pushed the United States to boycott the 1936 Summer Olympics in protest of Nazi Germany?
- ... that Aya Mpali, a flagbearer for Gabon at the 2020 Summer Olympics, was motivated to take up swimming competitively after her parents drowned?
- ... that two hours before Canadian boxer Mandy Bujold competed in a 2016 Summer Olympics fight, she had been in hospital with gastroenteritis?
- ... that New Zealand rower Hannah Osborne unexpectedly displaced the current double world champion in double scull, Olivia Loe, to win a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics?
- ... that at the 2016 Summer Olympics, French sailor Hélène Defrance won a medal by a single point?
