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St. Moritz 1948

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 atleast one color of the participating country’s national flag.

The first postwar Olympic Games were held in St. Moritz in 1948. Germany and Japan were barred from competing, but everyone else took part eagerly, and it was clear that the Winter Olympics had successfully survived the 12 year hiatus. For the first time, North Americans won gold medals in figure skating. Barbara Ann Scott of Canada took the women’s title and Dick Button of the United States the men’s. Although 22 events were contested, only French Alpine skier Henri Oreiller and Swedish Nordic skier Martin Lundstrom were able to win two gold medals.

St. Moritz 1948 opening ceremony was on 30 January 1948 and closing date was 08 February 1948. St. Moritz 1948 Olympic Games were arranged in the country of the host Switzerland. Candidate city was Lake Placid. In these Olympic sports played were Bobsleigh, Ice Hockey, Skating, and Skiing.

In St. Moritz 1948 Official opening of the games was done by President of the Helvetic Confederation Enrico Celio. Lighting of the Olympic flame by for the Winter Games, the flame was lit for the first time in 1952 in Oslo. Olympic Oath by Riccardo Bibi Torriani Official Oath by the first officials' oath was sworn at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. In St. Moritz 1948 Olympic Games included 28 Nations, 669 athletes, 77 women, 592 men and 22 events.

Competing in the slalom, Gretchen Fraser recorded the fastest time in the first round. As she prepared to lead off the second round, a problem developed in the telephone timing system. Despite a 17-minute delay at such a critical time, she skied fast enough to earn the gold medal, the first ever by an American skier. In that St. Moritz 1948 year Norway achieved good position with hard working. They got 4, 3, 3 medals respectively Gold, Silver, Bronze in that specific year.

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