Interesting baseball game held in Paris at the time of the 1900 #Olympics unrememberedhistory.com/tag/july-4-1...

The oldest #Olympic athlete, French long jumper Yvonne Curtet-Chabo passed away on Friday at the age of 104.

#Olympic #Trivia
When curling was a demonstration sport at the 1932 Olympic Winter Games, the winning team was comprised entirely of politicians - including three members of the Canadian parliament

Some very sad #Olympic news tonight courtesy of @nickzaccardi.bsky.social.
He's able to confirm that 104 year old Iris Cummins, the American swimmer who was the last survivor of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, passed away last Friday.
RIP

#Olympics Today in 1881 Olympic hockey medalist Alastair Denniston was born. The Scotsman went on to head the "Ultra" project in WW2 that succeded in breaking the German Enigma code

80 years ago today, the Belgian Olympic speed skater Charles de Ligne was shot dead. In 1944, he discovered his wife was having an affair with a younger man. After throwing the man out of his house, his wife decided to kill him, luring him to their countryside hideout.