Two times winner
Only four athletes have won medals in both the Winter and the Summer Olympics. Only one of them, Christa Ludinger-Rothenburger, won medals in the same year.
During the 2012 London Games, the Olympic Village required 165,000 towels for a bit more than two weeks of activity.
The official languages of the games are English and French, complemented by the official language of the host country.
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