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Relive the moments that went down in history at the 1948 winter Olympics in St. Moritz. Access official videos, results, galleries, sport and athletes.
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.
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.
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.
21 cze 2024 · St Moritz 1948: A war-weary world emerges from the shadows. The Swiss resort’s second Olympic Winter Games, staged 20 years after its first, provided the perfect tonic for a world still recovering from the Second World War. Legacy overview.
Two athletes won a second “St. Moritz” Olympic medal, as “Bibi” Torriani played on the Swiss ice hockey team to match his bronze from 1928; and Jack Heaton (USA) also repeated his silver medal from the skeleton race in 1928 on the famed Cresta Run. The skeleton race, a form of tobogganing unique to the St. Moritz resort, was held at the ...
The US ice hockey team caused a huge upset by defeating the favored Soviet Union at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics. The team was coached by Herb Brooks , who was the last player to be cut from the 1960 team (which also won gold).
