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