10 fun facts about Modern Olympics! 🏅✨

1. Only four athletes have ever medaled in both Winter and Summer Olympics! Christa Luding-Rothenburger did it in the same year (1988)! 🥇🥶🏖️
2. The 2012 London Olympics used a jaw-dropping 165,000 towels in just over two weeks! 🛁😲
3. The Olympics have three official languages: English, French, and the host country's language. 🌍
4. "Tarzan" star Johnny Weissmüller won five Olympic golds in swimming in the 1920s! 🐒🏊‍♂️
5. From 1912 to 1948, artists could win Olympic medals! Painters, sculptors, architects, writers, and musicians competed. 🎨🏆
6. In 1936, two Japanese pole-vaulters tied for silver. They split their medals into half-silver, half-bronze pieces! 🇯🇵🥈🥉
7. The Olympic torch has traveled by boat, airplane, horseback, camel, canoe, underwater, and even by radio signal! 🛳️✈️🏇🐪
8. The unlit Olympic torch has made multiple trips to space! 🚀
9. Sports that are no longer in the Olympics: solo synchronized swimming, tug of war, rope climbing, and live pigeon shooting (only in 1900)! 🚫🕊️
10. The first official Olympic mascot was Waldi the dachshund, introduced at the 1972 Munich Games! 🐶

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