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X Olympics
For the first time since the end of World War II, East and West German athletes competed on separate teams. And the International Olympic Committee set a precedent by ordering the first drug and gender testing of Olympic athletes. |
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- VITAL STATS
Attendance: 37 nations
Male athletes: 1,081
Female athletes: 212
Most-medaled country: Norway (14)
U.S. rank: 7th (tied)
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- HIGHLIGHTS
ï The 1968 Games were dubbed the "Killympics," after French skier Jean-Claude Killy enthralled his fellow countrymen with a stunning three gold-medal sweep of all of the men's Alpine skiing events.
ï Peggy Fleming (USA) took home the gold in women's figure skating. Her victory was the only gold medal to be won by an American competitor at the 1968 Winter Games.
ï Forty-year-old Eugenio Monti (Italy) had spent 12 years trying to win a gold medal in Olympic bobsledding. At the Grenoble Games, his dream came true, as he not only won the gold in the two-man bobsled, but also scored a second gold as a member of the victorious Italian four-man bobsled team.
ï Norweigian speedskater Fred Anton Maier, a bronze medalist in the 5,000m at the 1964 Innsbruck Games, shattered the world record in the event at Grenoble, finishing nearly four seconds ahead of the previous record, with a gold medal winning time of 7:22.4.
ï Three American women speedskaters -- Mary Meyers, Dianne Holum and Jennifer Fish -- all tied for the silver medal in the 500m, with an identical time in the event of 46.3 seconds.
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