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Did you know
... that
basketball center
Jānis Krūmiņš
won
1956 Olympic
silver only three years after he started playing basketball?
... that in 1904, gymnast
George Eyser
won six Olympic medals, including gold in the
vault
, even though he had a wooden
prosthesis
for a leg?
... that
professional wrestler
Olímpico
'
s
ring name
was inspired by the
1992 Summer Olympics
?
... that
Zali Steggall
was the first Australian to win an individual medal at the
Winter Olympics
?
... that the
Zappas Olympics
were a series of four athletic contests held in
Athens
between 1859 and 1889 and are considered as precursors to the modern
Olympic Games
?
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