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unusual facts about 1968 Winter Olympics


Isère

Isère features many ski resorts, including the Alpe d'Huez, Les Deux Alpes, the 1968 Winter Olympics resorts of Chamrousse, Villard de Lans, Autrans.


Autrans

At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, it hosted the biathlon, cross country skiing, Nordic combined, and the ski jumping normal hill events.

Bernadette Rauter

Bernadette Rauter (born 8 August 1949 in Breitenwang) is an Austrian former alpine skier who competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics and 1972 Winter Olympics.

Biathlon at the Winter Olympics

At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, the men's 4×7.5 km relay debuted, followed by the 10 km sprint event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

Bjørn Wirkola

He also competed at three Winter Olympics: in 1964 he finished eleventh in the Nordic combined, in 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, he achieved his best finish with a fourth place in the individual normal hill, 0.6 points behind the bronze medalist Baldur Preiml of Austria, and the 1972 Winter Olympics, where he finished 37th in the wind-ravaged event in the Okurayama large hill.

Boris Stenin

Despite having studied the world's best speed skaters in recent years, Stenin still did not have extensive practical knowledge and after the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, he went to work at an institute for Physical Education.

Bud Feltman

In 1968, Feltman coached the Canadian luge team for the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.

Chamrousse

Chamrousse hosted the six alpine skiing events at the 1968 Winter Olympics, where Jean-Claude Killy of France won three gold medals in the men's events.

Erik Schinegger

In 1967, as he was preparing for the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, a medical test by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) determined that Schinegger was male, with internal male sex organs, and disqualified him.

Klaus Hirche

Hirche also played for East Germany at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble.

Larry Pleau

Pleau was one of the top American hockey players in the late 1960s and early 1970s, playing for Team USA at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble as well as the 1969 Ice Hockey World Championship tournament in Stockholm.

New Zealand at the 1968 Winter Olympics

New Zealand had seven competitors (five men and two women) at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.

Program Evaluation and Review Technique

An example of this was for the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble which applied PERT from 1965 until the opening of the 1968 Games.

Robert Makara

At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, he finished seventh in the Nordic combined event.

Sabena Flight 548

Although Scott Allen won a bronze medal at the 1964 Winter Olympics – becoming one of the youngest Olympic medalists in history – the United States would not regain prominence in the sport until the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, where Peggy Fleming won gold in the ladies' event and Tim Wood the silver in the men's singles event.

Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte

The commune hosted the ski jumping individual large hill event for the 1968 Winter Olympics held in neighboring Grenoble, which was on the Le Moucherotte.

Vladimir Belussov

His best known successes were at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, where he won a gold medal for the Soviet Union in the individual large hill event, and at the Holmenkollen ski festival, where he won the ski jumping competition twice (1968, 1970).

Wolfgang Plotka

Plotka also competed for East Germany at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, scoring one goal and one assist in seven games played.


see also

Leinweber

Judi Leinweber (born 1950), Canadian alpine skier who competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics References