In 1968, at the age of 40, with nine bobsleigh World Championship titles to his name and a reputation for fair play after his superb display of sportsmanship four years earlier in Innsbruck, Eugenio Monti triumphed twice on the Alpe d’Huez ice track, winning both the two-man and four-man events. Here we take a look back at a memorable week for one of the greatest bobsledders of all time. It all started on Thursday 8 February.

After being granted Olympic status in 1954, luge made its official début 10 years later on the Igls ice track at the Innsbruck Games. The first singles titles were awarded on 4 February 1964 to two East German lugers competing for the Unified Team of Germany, Thomas Köhler and Ortrun Enderlein, who paved the way for Germany’s success on the Olympic stage – a success that has continued to this day.

Olympic fans were able to watch solo bobsleigh at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) Lillehammer 2016 and Lausanne 2020. The women’s event is now on the programme of the Winter Games in Beijing in 2022, and unlike other bobsleigh events, the athletes use a bob that is identical to those of all their competitors, giving pride of place to the driving, with the value of the equipment having no bearing.

The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) has celebrated six months to go until the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. As the Games draw closer, excitement is building throughout the city, and the illumination of the Olympic rings in Odaiba today is just the latest addition to the growing Olympic atmosphere.

When Alexander Czudaj (GER) sustained an arm injury that meant he could no longer pursue his chosen sport of javelin, like many young people he turned to his father for advice.

When Maude Davis Crossland and her family moved from the USA to Colombia nearly a decade ago, initially thinking it would be for two years, she never imagined she would become the South American nation's first female Winter Youth Olympian.

Romania picked up their first gold medal of the Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games as Georgeta Popescu raced to first place in the women’s monobob competition.

After a long walk beside the track, Giancarlo Torriani reached the starting area of the St. Moritz Olympia Bob Run for a well-deserved coffee break.

Russia took the top two spots in Monday’s free dance to claim a 1-2 in the overall ice dance rankings, confirming their standing as the in-form figure skating team at the Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games.

Monobob aims to create a level playing field and is returning to the Youth Olympics Games in Lausanne this January.