Olympics reporter Sonali has a list of the Olympics’ superlatives… from the busiest athlete:

Taormina will be the busiest athlete!

She’s going to be the first woman ever to compete in three Olympics in three different sports.
The American won a gold medal in swimming in 1996 and competed in the triathlon at the Athens games in 2004.
This time in Beijing she’ll be running in the modern pentathlon, which is made up of five different events.

… the weirdest Olympic event:

Weirdest

And the weirdest event ever to be held at the Olympics has got to be poodle-clipping.

It only featured in one Games in Paris in 1900. A farmer’s wife won the gold medal.

She managed to trim 17 poodles in just two hours!

Via CBBC Newsround Sport Sonali’s weird Olympics facts