Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/18

... that the People's Republic of China made its Olympic debut at the 1952 Summer Games, but the team arrived in Helsinki too late to compete except for one race by a single swimmer?
... that Tim Morehouse, a member of the U.S. fencing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, originally took up fencing in order to be excused from his high school gym class?
... that flatwater canoer Vladas Česiūnas was forcibly returned by the KGB to the Soviet Union out of fear that he would publish a book on doping in the Soviet Union prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics?
... that British fencer Mary Glen-Haig was the first female member of the International Olympic Committee?
... that the Marshall Islands, Montenegro, and Tuvalu made their first Olympic appearance at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing?