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Innsbruck 1964
The Olympic Games or Olympics is an international multi-sport event taking place every four years which comprises of summer and winter games. Though the first ancient games were held in 776 B.C, the modern games started from 1896. The unity of the 5 continents is shown on the Olympic flag by five colorful intertwined rings of red, blue, green, yellow, and black, created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to represent at least one color of the participating country’s national flag.
Innsbruck 1964 Olympics opening ceremony was on 29 January 1964 and closing date was 09 February 1964. Innsbruck 1964 Olympics was arranged in the country of the host city Austria. Candidate cities were Calgary and Lahti Are. In Innsbruck 1964 Olympics included 36 Nations, 1091 athletes, 199 women, 892 men, and 27 events.
In that Olympics sports played were Bobsleigh, Ice Hockey, Skating, Skiing, Biathlon, and Luge. Innsbruck 1964 Olympics official opening of the games was done by President Dr. Adolf Scharf and lighting of the Olympic Flame by Joseph Rieder. Olympic Oath by Paul Aste, Official Oath by the first officials' oath was sworn at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
The 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck were threatened by a lack of snow. The Austrian army rushed to the rescue, carving out 20,000 ice bricks from a mountain top and transporting them to the bobsled and luge runs. They also carried 40,000 cubic meters of snow to the Alpine skiing courses. When rain caused further havoc, before ten days of the opening ceremony, the army packed down the slopes by hand and foot. Politically, the Games were notable because East and West Germany entered a combined team.
Lydia Skoblikova won all four women’s speed skating events to become the first athlete to win four gold medals in one Winter Olympics. Klavdiya Boyarskikh earned three gold medals in cross-country skiing and on the men’s side, Eero Mantyranta won two. The Italian team took the bronze and Monti would be given the first De Coubertin Medal for sportsmanship. In that Innsbruck 1964 year USSR achieved good position with hard working. They got 11, 8, 6 medals respectively Gold, Silver, Bronze in that specific year.
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