14 Things About the Olympics Your Probably Didn’t Know

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She Joined the Olympics Without Knowing It

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Back at that time, the Olympics was said to have been unorganized. And what Abbott didn’t know was that the simple golf competition she joined was actually the Olympics. Years went by when a professor named Paula Welch decided to look into the games in their early years and managed to find out about her story. Welch eventually found Abbott’s children and explained the situation to them. Sadly, she would never know that she was actually the very first American female to win first prize because she had died in 1955.