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St. Moritz 1928
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.
The second winter Olympic game was held in St. Moritz in 1928. The 1928 Winter Games hosted by St. Moritz, Switzerland, were the first to be held in a different nation than the Summer Games of the same year. A new event was contested the skeleton, which is similar to luge except that the athletes descend headfirst. Speed skater A. Clas Thunberg added two more gold medals to the three he had won in 1924.
The opening date was 11 February 1928 and closing date was 19 February 1928. Switzerland was the host city and candidate cities are Davos and Engelberg. According to the International Olympic Committee's rules at the time, the country of the host city selected to organize the Summer Olympics took priority should it also wish to organize the Winter Games. Total four sports played in that Olympics those are Bobsleigh, Ice Hockey, Skating and Skiing.
Total 25 Nations and 464 athletes, 26 women, 438 men participated in14 events. Official opening of the Games was done by President of the Helvetic Confederation Edmund Schulthess. For the Winter Games, the flame was lit for the first time in 1952 in Oslo by Hans Eidenbenz and Official Oath by The first officials' oath was sworn at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
Johan Grottumbraten of Norway won the 18km cross-country event and the Nordic combined. Another Norwegian, Sonja Henie, caused a sensation by winning the women’s figure skating at the age of fifteen. Her record as the youngest winner of an individual event stood for 74 years. In men’s figure skating, Gillis Grafstrom of Sweden won his third straight gold medal. Canada again dominated the ice hockey tournament, winning their three matches 11-0, 14-0 and 13-0. The 10,000m speed skating was cancelled because of the condition of the ice warm wind.
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