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This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on January 26, 2019.

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March 7, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed
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April 4, 2010	Featured article candidate	Promoted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 17, 2009. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that upon entering the Stadio Olympica at the opening ceremonies of the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, the torch bearer tripped over a cable and fell, nearly extinguishing the Olympic flame?
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Number of athletes?

Sources list the number of athletes as 821, but when I add up the number of athletes listed in the tables, I get 924. Is this explained somewhere in a source? – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:27, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]