St.Moritz 1948 - Olympic Games Winners

Start:

30 Jan 1948

End:

08 Feb 1948

Countries:

Athletes:

669

Sports:

Events:

City:

St.Moritz, Switzerland

Initially, Winter Olympic games 1940 were scheduled to be held in Sapporo, Japan. However, because of the Sino-Japanese conflict, in 1939, the Winter Games 1940 were reassigned to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy was selected to host the 1944 Winter Olympics.
The Winter Olympics 1940 and 1944 were canceled because of the Second World War.
In 1946, at the 39th IOC session in Lausanne, St.Moritz, Switzerland was selected to host the Winter Olympic Games 1948 over another candidate city Lake Placid, USA.

President of Switzerland Enrico Celio officially opened the 5 Winter Olympic games 1948 - the first postwar Games.
Germany and Japan, the aggressors of World War II, were not permitted to participate in the Games.
The IOC kept its position and did not allow ski instructors to compete in alpine skiing events because they were professionals.
The Americans sent two rival teams to the olympic ice hockey tournament, one representing the US Olympic Committee and the second affiliated with the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). Eventually, the second team played in the tournament and finished fourth. Still, later, the IOC disqualified it, and official reports included the names of the first team that did not play one minute in the Olympics.