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Grenoble, France
Xth WINTER GAMES |
February 6 -
16, 1968 |
Mascot -
Schuss |
37 countries,
1158 athletes (211 women) |
6 sports, 35 events |
Opening -
President Charles de Gaulle |
Torch lit by -
Alain Calmat (figure skating) |
Candidates:
Calgary, Lahti/Are (SWE), Lake Placid, Oslo, Sapporo |
 The great patron of this edition
of the games was considered General Charles de Gaulle who wanted a great
international event for France. In fact the Grenoble games can be
considered the "Grandiose" Olympics. This was confirmed in the
opening ceremony with 18 thousand persons, the Olympic flame transported
from Athens by air, a shower of thousands of scented paper roses from
three helicopters with 5 circles drawn in the sky by the smoke of the
parachutists, the Olympic flags shot into the air by cannons. General de
Gaulle personally read the oath.
For the first time since the end
of World War II, East and West German athletes competed on separate
teams. And the International Olympic Committee set a precedent by
ordering the first drug and gender testing of Olympic athletes.
However the Alpine skiers aroused
a heated controversy, being accused of breaking the rules of amateur
status because of the very obvious advertising brands on their equipment
which the IOC had not wanted to appear either during interviews or in
photos. This warning was so blatantly disregarded that Avery Brundage
himself refused to present the medals.
These were the Olympics of
Jean-Claude Killy. Killy wowed his home crowd and repeated the
achievement of Toni Sailer, sweeping the alpine events. In women's
alpine, Canadian Nancy Greene won a gold in the giant slalom and a
silver in the slalom.
In the nordic events, the
Scandinavian countries were shocked twice. First Franco Nones, an
Italian, became the first non-Scandinavian to win a cross-country skiing
race when he claimed gold in the 30 km. Then Vladimir Beloussov became
the first and only man from the Soviet Union to win a ski jumping event
when he took gold in the 90-meter competition. Eugenio Monti -- the nine-time
World Champion bobsledder -- finally won gold, sweeping the bobsledding
events in his final Olympic attempt. Peggy Fleming easily won gold in
the ladies' figure skating competition, while in one of the biggest
surprises of the Games, Austrian Emmerich Danzer -- the 1966 and 1967
world champion -- did not even medal. His countryman Wolfgang Schwarz
claimed gold in men's figure skating.
The Soviet Union lost its
dominance on the speed-skating track, with Norway picking up the slack. Norway regained its status as the
top medal-winner with 14.
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SKATING |
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Figure Skating |
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Speed Skating |
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SKIING |
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Alpine Skiing |
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6 |
Cross-Country Skiing |
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Nordic Combined |
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Ski Jumping |
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TOTAL |
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35 |
GOLD MEDAL
WINNERS
(1 event added)
(22 Men, 12 Women, 1 Combined Events)
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BIATHLON
M\20km: Magnar Solberg, Norway
M\4x7.5km Relay: Soviet Union
BOBSLEIGH
M\Two-Man: Eugenio Monti/Luciano de Paolis, ITA
M\Four-Man: Italy
ICE HOCKEY
Men's Team: Soviet Union
LUGE
M\Single: Manfred Schmid, Austria
M\Double: Thomas Köhler/Klaus Bonsack, GDR
W\Single: Erica Lechner, Italy |
SKIING
ALPINE SKIING
M\Downhill: Jean-Claude Killy, France
M\Slalom: Jean-Claude Killy, France
M\Giant Slalom: Jean-Claude Killy, France
W\Downhill: Olga Pall, Austria
W\Slalom: Marielle Goitschel, France
W\Giant Slalom: Nancy Greene, Canada
CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING
M\15km Classical: Harald Gronningen, Norway
M\30km Classical: Franco Nones, Italy
M\50km Classical: Ole Ellefsaeter, Norway
M\4x10km Relay: Norway
W\5km Classical: Toini Gustafsson, Sweden
W\10km Classical: Toini Gustafsson, Sweden
W\3x5km Relay: Norway
NORDIC COMBINED
M\Individual: Franz Keller, West Germany
SKI JUMPING
M\K-90 Individual: Jiri Raska, Czechoslovakia
M\K-120 Individual: Vladimir Belousov, USSR
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SKATING
FIGURE SKATING
M\Singles: Wolfgang Schwarz, Austria
W\Singles: Peggy Fleming, United States
Pairs: Lyudmila Belousova/Oleg Protopopov, USSR
SPEED SKATING
M\500m: Erhard Keller, West Germany
M\1500m: Cornelis Verkerk, Netherlands
M\5000m: Fred Anton Maier, Norway
M\10000m: Johnny Hoglin, Sweden
W\500m: Lyudmila Titova, USSR
W\1000m: Carolina Geijssen, Netherlands
W\1500m: Kaija Mustonen, Finland
W\3000m: Johanna Schut, Netherlands |
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Norway |
6 |
6 |
2 |
14 |
USSR |
5 |
5 |
3 |
13 |
France |
4 |
3 |
2 |
9 |
Italy |
4 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
Austria |
3 |
4 |
4 |
11 |
Netherlands |
3 |
3 |
3 |
9 |
Sweden |
3 |
2 |
3 |
8 |
West
Germany |
2 |
2 |
3 |
7 |
United
States |
1 |
5 |
1 |
7 |
East
Germany |
1 |
2 |
2 |
5 |
Finland |
1 |
2 |
2 |
5 |
Czechoslovakia |
1 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
Canada |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
Switzerland |
0 |
2 |
4 |
6 |
Romania |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
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TOTAL
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35 |
39 |
32 |
106 |
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