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Did you know
... that former British Olympic bronze medallist
Kate Allenby
became a
PE teacher
after she retired from professional sport?
... that Haitian runner
Dieudonné LaMothe
said he completed the marathon at the
1984 Summer Olympics
in fear for his life?
... that German sculptor
Walter Lemcke
designed the first Olympic torch for the
1936 Summer Olympics torch relay
, which began the tradition of taking the
Olympic Flame
to the host city?
... that the wrestling match between
Alfred Asikainen
and
Martin Klein
at the
1912 Summer Olympics
lasted eleven hours and forty minutes?
... that
the first Winter Olympic torch relay
did not carry the
Olympic Flame
?
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