14 Things About the Olympics Your Probably Didn’t Know

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The Unnamed Winners

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Since time immemorial, everyone that joins the Olympics is truly in it to win it, and not just for posterity sake. Back in the 1900s, people would do whatever they could to win, even if that included changing teammates at the last minute. Apparently, Dutch rowers Roelof Klein and Francois Antoine Brandt had heard that other teams were using children in the place of their coxswains, which were the ones who works as the “coach” of the boat. So they decided to pick a kid off the streets of Paris that had a bit of rowing knowledge and use him as theirs.