Brazilian athletes funded their trip to the 1932 Olympics by selling coffee along the way.
In 1932, the Olympic Games host city was Los Angeles, only with the Great Depression on, many countries sent fewer athletes than usual, to cut costs.
Several countries only had one athlete representing them at the Games that year.
But Brazil wanted to send a full complement of competitors, even though they didn’t have any money set aside for their travel.
Instead, the country sent the athletes, 68 men and one woman, on a ship with 50,000 pounds of the country’s top cash crop – coffee – and instructions to sell the beans along the way to cover their fares.