Latvia’s Martins Dukurs won his eighth successive overall Skeleton World Cup title in Pyeongchang this weekend. The 32-year-old edged out home favourite Yun Sungbin by just 0.01 second in the final race of the season, securing the overall title by 39 points over Yun, who finished second once again.

Sweden took a thrilling gold in the women's 4x5km cross country relay, overtaking Finland and Germany in the last metres for a famous victory.

Switzerland's Vreni Schneider was already an established star by the time Calgary 1988 came around, but this was her first appearance on the Olympic stage.

Sweden’s Ingemar Stenmark is considered the greatest slalom specialist of all time – and perhaps the highpoint of his career was his double gold win at the Lake Placid Games in 1980.

As Hanni Wenzel skied towards her third Olympic medal at Lake Placid in 1980, three flag-waving fans from her homeland of Liechtenstein cheered her on to glory. Their last-minute dash to the USA paid off, as Wenzel won gold in the women’s slalom, giving the tiny European principality a rare moment of sporting glory.

Perhaps fittingly for a cross-country skier, Raisa Smetanina’s journey to sporting greatness was lengthy and gruelling – but it remains almost unsurpassed in the annals of the Olympic Winter Games. And it all began in Innsbruck in 1976.