At the 1928 Winter Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland, demonstration sports – not part of the official program – were included for the first time. With demonstration events ceasing to ...

St. Moritz, Switzerland, host of the 1928 Winter Games, also held the 1948 edition after the war. The Olympics weren’t always the massive global event they are today. After 122 years ...

Bobsledding and tobogganing -- also known as the skeleton -- were still relatively new and unknown endeavors in 1928, despite the fact that both were official sports at the Winter Olympic Games in ...

Fiske, Eddie Eagan, Clifford Gray and Jay O'Brien, who will compete in the 1932 Winter Olympics, also members of the 1928 Champion Team. Bettmann—Bettmann ArchiveBettmann—Bettmann Archive ...

The Winter Olympics opened this week ... Skiing was not one of the sports in the 1924 Olympics, nor in the 1928 Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The major events were speed and figure skating, ...

The resort town in southeast Switzerland is a mecca of winter sports ... establishing its own federation before appearing in the 1928 Olympics in the sport’s birthplace -- St. Moritz.

Dog-powered skijorers can reach speeds of up to 25 mph. Skijoring was a demonstration event at the 1928 Winter Olympics, held in St. Moritz, Switzerland; skiers were towed, somewhat implausibly ...

The 15 Winter Olympic sports in 2022 are bobsled ... Military patrol was once a medal sport in 1924 and a demonstration sport in 1928, 1936 and 1948. The sport was a precursor to biathlon and ...

No individual woman 25 or older has figure skated for Team USA in the Winter Olympics since 1928. Mariah Bell will break the 94-year drought February in Beijing. The 25-year-old Bell won the ...