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The third installment of the novel the Olympic winter with the first edition of the five white circles held out of the'' Europe and the world economic crisis.
Tuesday 31 December 2013 10 minutes reading time
The United States, which would have been allocated tenths Summer Games of 1932 in Los Angeles, absolutely want to also host the third Winter Olympics and for this purpose have seven candidate cities: Lake Placid, Yosemite Valley, Lake Tahoe, Bear Mountain, Duluth , Minneapolis and Denver. We also participate with the Montreal Canadian and Norwegian Oslo. On 10 April 1929 the choice of'' meeting of the IOC in Lausanne falls on Lake Placid, the center of less than 4000 inhabitants at the foot of the Adirondack Mountains, in upstate New York, on the border with Canada.
Its height above sea level is relatively low, 568 meters, but the organizing committee, which has the invaluable support of the governor of the state of New York, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the future U.S. President, he manages to convince the International Olympic Committee's goodness ,'' and of the adequacy of facilities for winter sports, in particular for cross-country skiing and skating existing in the country. But it will be a'' edition of the Winter Games, the first outside Europe, with a number of participants, both as athletes and as nations rather lower than that of St. Moritz in 1928 because of expensive trip overseas'' that many European countries, the global economic crisis in full swing, do not feel face to face or at lower ranks: from 463 athletes from 25 nations present at Engadine goes to 252 athletes from 17 nations.
Here too, the main enemy during the competition will be hot, even the rain that fell before the tests of jump landing area will turn into a sort of pool. In the two months prior to the Games snows only a couple of times just before the Olympic event that you save as a possible cancellation. As for the official program, the skeleton disappears, demonstration are curling, racing sled dogs and the women's speed skating.
A little over a year from the Games federghiaccio international approving an amendment to the rules of speed skating: no more batteries in pairs and tracking but qualifying races with mass start at least five athletes, the best pass to the final, always with a mass start. A little 'as is happening today in the short track but on a long track. This format favors the hosts, who prefer racing against the clock rather than tactics, and in fact they won four golds are four of them: Jack Shea won the 500 (in this race is for the first time introduced the podium for the awards) and 1500 Irving Jaffee, what was the head of the longest distance of St. Moritz when he was suspended for the hot, 5000 and 10000. European countries make lump sum block to protest with this regulatory change, in particular there is the Finnish Clas Thunberg, which could further enhance his palmares in five circles, only the Norwegians dare to seriously challenge the U.S. and Canada: Bernt Evensen wins silver at 500, Ivar Ballangrud on 10000.
The U.S. win two more golds in bob sport in which for the first time the races are staged still in the program, the two one and four. In the first comeback win over Swiss Reto Capadrutt and Oscar Geier brothers Hubert and Curtis Stevens, who are right in Lake Placid, in the second, which curiously is held after the closing ceremony of the Games because of the references to the weather problems, Billy Fiske makes an encore of St. Moritz, refuse to participate in the next Olympic event in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in protest against Nazism and will be the first American to be drafted into the RAF, the British air force, but during the Battle of Britain will be torn down in 1940 and died at the age of 29. One of the members of his crew in Lake Placid is Eddie Eagan, Olympic champion in light heavyweight boxing at Antwerp in 1920, and still the only one to have won an Olympic gold winter and summer in two different disciplines.
Even the Swedish Grafström Gillis won at the Summer Games and Winter but in the same event, the artistic men's figure skating, and nearly 39 years is still on the ice, but fails in a row, leaving the sensational poker gold Austrian Karl Schäfer and content with silver. In the pairs competition confirmed the French Andrée Joly and Pierre Brunet, in the meantime become husband and wife in 1929, in the female continues the rule of the Norwegian Sonja Henie that has lasted five years. In the 50 km trail, played with spring temperatures and little snow not to say non-existent, he won the Finnish Veli Saarinen at the cost of immense effort in the 18 km, also valid for the combined, it requires the Swede Sven Utterström, the Multiple test if the wins as four years before the Norwegian Johan Grøttumsbråten in ski jumping triumphs one of which will resend speak in subsequent editions of the Games, the Norwegian Birger Ruud.
Ice hockey, played a double round one between Canada, the United States, Germany and Poland, usually the domain of maple leaves but are stopped at 2-2 in the last game from the hosts, who were already been bent to toil for 2-1 in the first overtime. Still no medal for the Italian tiny squad, get them the best results count Teofilo Rossi of Turin Montelera, scion of the family that owns the world-famous manufacturer of appetizers Martini & Rossi, which comes in four-man bob fifth and sixth in the one to two.
Summary
3rd edition of the Olympic Winter Games
Host city and date of the event: Lake Placid (United States) 4-15 February 1932
Athletes participating: 252 (231 men, 21 women)
Participating countries: 17
Italian participants: 12 (all men)
Standard Bearer Italian Erminio Sertorelli (cross country)
Securities allotted: 14 in 7 sports
Official opening: Governor of the State of New York Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Olympic athletes' oath: Jack Shea (speed skating)
The medal
United States: 6 gold 4 silver 2 bronze
Norway: 3 gold 4 silver 3 bronze
Sweden: 1 gold 2 silver
Canada: 1 gold 1 silver 5 bronze medals
Finland: 1 gold 1 silver 1 bronze
Austria: 1 gold 1 silver
France: 1 gold
Switzerland: 1 silver
Germany: 2 bronze
Hungary: 1 bronze
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