Where The 1968 Winter Olympics Were Held

Where The 1968 Winter Olympics Were Held
Where The 1968 Winter Olympics Were Held

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In 1968, the International Olympic Committee once again entrusted the holding of the Games to France. This year, Grenoble has become the capital of international sports competitions in winter sports.

Where the 1968 Winter Olympics were held
Where the 1968 Winter Olympics were held

The final decision that the games will be held in Grenoble was made at a meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1964. Grenoble's rivals were the Japanese city of Sapporo, the Norwegian capital of Oslo and Lake Placid in the United States. The French ski resort won by a small margin in the final round of the competition with the Canadian city of Calgary.

Over the course of 4 years, several special sports facilities for the games, such as the Olympic Stadium, were built in Grenoble. Alpine skiing and tobogganing tracks already existed earlier, which made it possible to reduce the financial costs of preparing for the Olympics.

Only 37 states took part in the games. This competition was the debut for the Moroccan team. Also, the 1968 Olympics was the first in which the teams of the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany took part separately.

The first place in the unofficial medal standings was taken by Norway, which reflected the high level of training of the athletes of this team in winter sports. Best of all, Norwegian skiers showed themselves. Skaters and biathletes also brought several medals.

The second with a lag of only one medal was the Soviet Union. The USSR national ice hockey team received gold. Soviet skaters performed excellently. A pair of Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov took first place, and Tatyana Zhuk and Alexander Gorelik became second. Also, one gold went to a Soviet athlete for ski jumping, which was a significant success for the USSR in this discipline.

The third was the team of France, the host country. Almost all the medals of the national team were brought by skiers, whose level in France is traditionally high. The United States team performed quite averagely, placing 9th overall. The only gold medal for the country was brought by Peggy Flaming, performing in figure skating.

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