Some of the above trivia questions now have a different response.

Just to add a bit of (German) trivia:

Our most successful ever athlete, above mentioned Birgit Fischer (gold at six different Olympic games), had declared last spring she would not compete this time. Such a pity, as she's only 46 years of age now.

But of course she was in Peking, commenting today the final in which she did win gold last time. She could congratulate her niece, Fanny Fischer (25 years younger than herself), with three others for the gold.

This is as far as I know the first aunt-niece pair winning gold at the same event at two immideately successive games.

Wolfgang