St.Moritz 1928 - Olympic Games Winners

Start:

11 Feb 1928

End:

19 Feb 1928

Countries:

Athletes:

464

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City:

St.Moritz, Switzerland

In 1926, the Netherlands, as host state of the Summer Olympics 1928, backed out to stage the Winter Olympic games 1928, and Switzerland got the right to host Winter Olympics.
In May 1926, at the 24th IOC session in Lisbon, the IOC decided to award the Winter games to St.Moritz.
Two other candidate cities were Davos and Engelberg.

President of Switzerland Edmund Schulthess officially opened the Second Winter Olympic games.
Germany was allowed to participate in the Olympic games after the First World War.
Warm weather disturbed athletes again. So, in Cross Country, at the beginning of the 50 km race, the air temperature was near zero Celsius, and by the end, it had risen to 25 degrees, and many skiers had dropped out.
In Bobsleigh, the number of starts was cut from four to two due to warm weather, and the competition in 10000 m speed skating was canceled because of thawing ice.