- ... that after being caught at sea trying to defect, Cuban baseball player Andy Morales wasn't asked to participate in the 2000 Summer Olympics?
- ... that Lucius Minicius Natalis Quadronius Verus was the first known Olympic champion to have been born in the Iberian Peninsula?
- ... that although miler Gene Venzke ran three world records during the 1932 indoor season, he failed to qualify for the Olympics that year and only made the team four years later?
- ... that Ágnes Keleti has won the most medals of all the Olympic female gymnasts for Hungary?
- ... that Nadia Comăneci has won the most medals of all the Olympic female gymnasts for Romania?
