Do You Know? - Amusing and Amazing Olympic Trivia

• Pierre de Coubertin, the late founder of the International Olympic Committee [IOC], decided to send his heart to the site of ancient Olympia in Greece, where it is kept in a monument. The rest of him is buried in Lausanne, Switzerland.
• No boxing was held at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics because the sport was illegal in Sweden.
• George Patton, who would later become a famous U.S. general, competed in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics pentathlon, an event combining pistol shooting, swimming, fencing, cross country and steeplechase. Patton performed poorly in his best event, pistols, but shined in fencing, defeating the French army champion. 'Old Blood and Guts' finished fifth overall, the only non-Swede to make the top seven.
• During the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, Olga Korbut, the gymnast from the USSR was the media darling. She was 17 years old and only stood 4ft 11in tall. [1.49 metres].
• Tug-o-war made its last appearance as an Olympic sport in 1920.
• French athletes bent the rules at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics: despite 'Prohibition', they were allowed wine with their meals.
• The greatest star of the 1936 Berlin Olympics was the 10th child born to an Alabama sharecropper family named Owens. He wa