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Olympics 1928 St. Moritz, Switzerland, February 11 - 19
No. of countries: 25
No. of athletes: 472 (438 m + 34 w)
No. of events: 14 in 6 sports
Even though the games were held in February, a heat wave nearly ruined the
competitions. Some events were cancelled or shortened. The winner of the 50 km
cross country skiing needed over an hour more than the winner four years
earlier. This was also the first time German athletes were allowed to compete
after World War I.
New sport this time was toboggan, predecessor of luge. Figure skater
Sonia Heine who at age 11 in Chamonix had come last, now entered the 1928
competitions at age 15 as a favorite and defending world champion. She won the
gold. For the United States, 16 year old William Fiske led the American bobsled
to a gold. Fiske would later become the first American pilot to be killed in the
World War II.