Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know/32

... that all five venues of the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz were reused as venues when the Winter Olympics returned to the city twenty years later?
... that cars were brought into the Empire Stadium venue to illuminate the last two decathlon events at the 1948 Summer Olympics?
... that four of the seven venues used for the 1896 Summer Olympics were reused for the 2004 Summer Olympics?
... that Irish barrister and philatelist William Russell Lane-Joynt was a four-time Revolver Champion of Ireland and won a silver medal for Great Britain in shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics?
... that the pool for the water polo venue at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo was shallow enough to allow taller Yugoslav players to stand with their heads above water?