Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/25

... that Emile St. Godard won the demonstration Sled dog race at the 1932 Winter Olympics, the only time the sport has been in the Olympics?
... that Swiss equestrian Gustav Fischer won a medal in every team dressage event held at the Summer Olympics between 1952 and 1968?
... that six new competition venues have been constructed in preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia?
... that athlete Simone Schaller began hurdling only three months before she competed in the sport at the 1932 Summer Olympics?
... that Stanford University biochemist Annette Salmeen was both an Olympic gold medalist and a Rhodes Scholar?