02/07/2013
Preparation, analysis, style, determination and experience – Sweden's Toini Gustafsson brought a great deal to the cross-country skiing competition in these Games and reaped the benefits. She had been...
02/10/1968
When the Olympic Winter Games arrived in Grenoble, there was enormous expectation among the French public for a home hero. The obvious focus was Jean-Claude Killy, a charming and hugely talented 24-ye...
17/02/1968
The Ice hockey tournament was based on a league format, although most fans had already decided who they expected to win before the first match was played. The Soviet Union had won the world championsh...
The women’s giant slalom produced one of the outstanding displays of these Games. Nancy Greene, a Canadian known as Tiger because of her aggressive style, was competing in her third Olympic Games, and...
15/02/1968
Tikhonov had had three days to reflect on his narrow failure to win a gold medal in the 20km event at Grenoble. His silver was still a towering achievement for a young skier, but he knew that if only ...
Speed skater Fred Anton Maier was a very talented sportsman. He had skated his way to both a silver and bronze medal in the 1964 Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck but his preparation for the Grenoble ...
While Eugenio Monti was on his way to being acclaimed as one of bobsleigh’s greatest competitors, another piece of history was being established among the medallists in the men's two-man. Standing on ...
Italy’s Eugenio Monti came to these Games as one of the most celebrated bobsleigh athletes of the time, and not just for his sporting ability. Four years before, he and his support team had twice come...
When Manfred Schmid arrived in Grenoble, he may have had an inkling that he had a long and successful career in luge ahead of him – but in Grenoble came confirmation. He was 23 years old, taking part ...
14/02/1968
Four years had passed since Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov, a married couple from the Soviet Union, had won the pairs figure skating title. In Grenoble, they faced renewed opposition, as well ...
Speed Skating - Lydia Skoblikova from USSR team
Grenoble 1968 Olympic Games Torch ©IOC
Jean-Claude Killy wearing the three gold medals he won at the Grenoble OG ©IOC
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