10:50 PM
Shweta Pandey
As the London 2012 Olympics draws ever nearer Telegraph Sport counts down with a daily fact or figure.
Malfunction: the Olympic countdown clock stopped with 499 days to go Photo: EPA
10:14AM GMT 24 Mar 2011
491 - 491 bronze medals have been won in Olympic swimming events since 1896.
492 - In 492 BC, at the Ancient Games, a feared boxer named Cleomedes was denied a gold medal in a fight that involved him brutally slaying his opponent. The disqualification was not for the killing, but a technical incident during the fight.
493 - The 493 London bus runs from Richmond - a key destination in the road cycling race - via Wimbledon Park and Southfields, where the All England Tennis club is located.
494 - 494 competitors from 67 nations took place in swimming events at the Los Angeles 1984 Olympics.
495 - £495 is the estimated starting cost per head for a place in a corporate hospitality box at the London 2012 Olympics tennis events.
496 - £496 million is the estimated cost of the Olympic Stadium, the focus of a post-Games tussle between West Ham and Tottenham - which the former won.
497 - £497 million was the estimated returns to the Olympics Lottery Distribution Found from sales of dedicated games, as of March 2010,
498 - With 498 days to go we learned that fridges and large amounts of coins were banned from London 2012 Olympic venues.
499 - The London 2012 Olympic countdown clock in Trafalgar Square stopped with 499 days to go after a technical error. Designers Omega were forced into sending technicians to fix the issue in an incident that proved to be a public relations nightmare.
500 - £500 is the cost of buying two official London 2012 ‘yellow gold disc charms’ from the online store.
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