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15 kwi 2015 · 📲 Subscribe to @olympics: http://oly.ch/Subscribe Welcome to the Olympics YouTube channel, where the Games never end! 🥇 From the best musical moments at t...
Relive the moments that went down in history at the 1948 winter Olympics in St. Moritz. Access official videos, results, galleries, sport and athletes.
📲 Subscribe to @olympics: http://oly.ch/Subscribe In part 5 of the official Olympic film of the St. Moritz 1948 Winter Olympic Games we see action from the...
Official list of medal winners and results by sport at the St. Moritz 1948 Olympic Games. Celebrate medal-winning moments by the world's top athletes.
After a prologue showing highlights from the Winter Games in St. Moritz, track and field predominates, with Fanny Blankers-Koen, the “Flying Dutchwoman”, winning four gold medals, and new heroes like distance runner Emil Zatopek and sprinter and hurdler Harrison Dillard coming to the fore.
The IOC selected St. Moritz to host the 1948 Games by acclamation at the 40 general session in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 6 September 1946. [2] The selection process consisted of two bids, and saw St. Moritz be selected ahead of Lake Placid , New York , United States.
Speed skater Guido Caroli carried the Olympic Torch on the ice during the opening ceremony of the 1956 Winter Olympics. He tripped over a microphone wire and fell, but fortunately he was not harmed and the fire did not go out.
