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Did you know
... that
Olympic silver and bronze
medalist
Stacey Porter
(pictured)
was the first Aboriginal member of the
Australian women's national team
to represent the country in softball at the Olympics?
... that
Queensland
teacher
Jodie Bowering
is also an
Australian
Olympic bronze medalist in softball?
... that
Dorothy Manley
took unpaid leave from her job as a typist to compete in the
1948 Summer Olympics
, where she won the silver medal in the
women's 100 metres
?
... that the
Moucherotte
, in
France
, was the location of the
ski-jumping
events of the
1968 Winter Olympics
?
... that despite being nicknamed the "relay of peace", the
1948 Summer Olympics torch relay
involved the
torch
being carried on three warships?
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