The 1908 Olympics Men s 400m final was run by one man The only walkover final in Olympic history
The 1908 Olympics Men s 400m final was run by one man The only walkover final in Olympic history
In 2012 Wojdan Shaherkani 16 became the first Saudi Arabian woman allowed to compete in the Olympics
Willy and Lottie Dod of Great Britain were the first brother and sister to win Olympic medals in 1908
The first recorded female Olympic champion was Kyniska of Sparta who won the tethrippon in 396 and 392BC
In 1912 in Stockholm the first electric timing devices and public address system was used at the Olympics
There are Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics Each held every four years; and two years apart from each othe
Willy and Lottie Dod of Great Britain were the first brother and sister to win Olympic medals in 1908 in Archery
In 1998 Tara Lipinski became the youngest individual gold medalist in Winter Olympic history She was 15y 18mo old
For the first time in Olympic history all participating teams in the 2012 London Olympics will have female athletes
The first black athlete to compete at the Olympics was Constantin Henriquez de Zubiera competing for France in 1900
China didn t win its first medal until 1984 It s hard to believe now since China seems to be a medal-winning monolith
In 1924 Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi won five gold medals including the 1500 m and 5 000 m in the space of just an hou
Dimitrious Loundrous of Greece was 10 years 218 days old when he finished third in the parallel bars in 1896 Olympics
In 1908 the Russian team turned up 12 days late to the Olympics because they had yet to start using the Gregorian calenda
Greece s British-born swimming world champion Spyros Gianniotis who will become the first Olympic Torchbearer of London 2012