DID YOU KNOW THAT… Cecilia Tait Villacorta attended the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul (South Korea) with the Peruvian volleyball team. Under Cecilia’s leadership, Peru won the silver medal in women’s volleyball. In Korea, she was considered the best volleyball player in the world.

DID YOU KNOW… Iceland has never had an Olympic gold medal?

DID YOU KNOW THAT… The Japanese delegation won a total of 18 medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics: five gold, eight silver and five bonus, finishing in 15th place in the final medal table.

DID YOU KNOW… The first time that Burkina Faso (a former French colony in Africa) had its own delegation to the Olympic Games was in 1972 in Munich, West Germany.

DID YOU KNOW…Kiribati (pronounced Kiribass) competed in the modern Olympic Games for the first time at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The national team had two sprinters (Kakianako Nariki and Kaitinano Mwemweata) and a weightlifter (Meamea Thomas).

DID YOU KNOW… Athlete Esther Brand captured the high jump gold medal at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games, becoming the first woman from an African country to win an Olympic medal? She was born in South Africa.

DID YOU KNOW… In 1984, the United States won its first Olympic gold medal in men’s volleyball and successfully defended its gold in 1988?

DID YOU KNOW… India finished 72nd in the final table of medals at the 1996 Olympic Games?

DID YOU KNOW… The US baseball team won the baseball gold medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia? Olympic champions were: Mike Kinkade, Marcus Jensen, Shane Heams, Chris George, Ryan Franklin, Adams Everett, Travis Dawkins, John Cotton, Sean Burroughs, Pat Borders, Brent Abernathy, Kurt Ainsworth, Rick Krivda, Doug Mientkiewcz, Mike Neill, Roy Oswalt, Jon Rauch, Anthony Sanders, Bobby Seay, Dean Sheets, Brad Wilkerson, Tim Young, Todd Williams, and Ernie Young.

DID YOU KNOW… Angola sent 29 athletes to the 1988 Olympic Games, which were held in Seoul, the capital of South Korea?

DID YOU KNOW…Helmut Bellingrodt became the first Colombian athlete to win an Olympic medal in shooting. He won a silver medal at the 1972 Olympic Games in Germany. Like Ximena Restrepo (athletics), Pablo Restrepo (swimming), María Isabel Urrutia (weightlifting), Carlos Valderrama (soccer), Martín Emilio Rodríguez (cycling) and Bernardo Tovar (shooting), Helmut Bellingrondt was one of the greatest Colombian athletes of the 20th century.

DID YOU KNOW….Puerto Rico had 3 boxers in the 1980 Olympic Games, which were held in Moscow, USSR. They were Alberto Mercado (gold medalist at the 1979 Pan American Games), Luis Pizarro and José Ángel Molina.

DID YOU KNOW… The first time Koreans participated in the Olympic Games was in 1936 in Berlin, Germany, when Koreans were part of the Japanese delegation. At these Games, Sohn Kee-Chung won the gold medal in the marathon.

DID YOU KNOW… The first Turk to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games was Yasar Erkan in 1936 in wrestling? He is considered one of Turkey’s national heroes.

DID YOU KNOW… One of the most famous athletes in Moroccan history is Nawal El Moutawakel? She won the gold medal in the women’s 400m hurdles at the 1984 Olympics. Ella Nawal became the first Arab Olympic gold medalist and an example for women in her native country.

DID YOU KNOW…Brazil won the gold medal in men’s volleyball at the XXIV Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​Spain. The Brazilian Olympic team defeated the Netherlands 3-0 in the final. The Olympic champions were: Marcelo Negrao, Jorge Edson Brito, Giovanne Gavio, Paulo Andre Silva, Mauricio Lima, Janelson Carvalho, Douglas Chiarotti, Antonio Carlos Gouveia, Talmo Oliveira, Amauri Ribeiro, Alexandre Samuel and Andre Felippe Ferreira.

DID YOU KNOW… Ethiopia is famous throughout history as the birthplace of Haile Gebrselassie, one of the greatest runners of the 20th and 21st centuries. He has won two 10,000m Olympic titles. It is an Olympic symbol in Africa.

DID YOU KNOW… Athlete María de Lourdes Mutola finished 22nd in the women’s 800 meters at the 1988 Olympic Games. After was one of the most famous runners in the world in the 1990s and early 2000s. María was born in Mozambique.

DID YOU KNOW… Turkey has competed in the Olympic Games 19 times and has won a total of 74 medals? It has more Olympic medals than Ireland (20), India (17), Peru (4), Taiwan (15), Saudi Arabia (2) and Malaysia (3) combined.

DID YOU KNOW… Burma (now Myanmar) sent 2 athletes to the 1980 Olympic Games, which were held in Moscow, USSR? They were Soe Khin (athletics) and Myint Sann (weightlifting).

DID YOU KNOW… Bolivia has never won an Olympic medal?

DID YOU KNOW… Zimbabwe (formerly known as Rhodesia) won the first women’s field hockey gold medal at the Moscow Olympics by defeating Austria 4-1 in the championship game?