1968 Winter Olympics

E401790
Olympic Winter Games multi-sport event

The 1968 Winter Olympics were the X Olympic Winter Games, an international multi-sport event held in France that featured notable performances in alpine skiing, figure skating, and ice hockey during the height of the Cold War era.

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Label Occurrences
1968 Winter Olympics canonical 8

Statements (53)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Olympic Winter Games ⓘ
multi-sport event ⓘ
bidsFrom Calgary ⓘ
Grenoble ⓘ
Lahti NERFINISHED ⓘ
Lake Placid ⓘ
Oslo ⓘ
Sapporo NERFINISHED ⓘ
closingDate 1968-02-18 ⓘ
featuredSport Nordic combined ⓘ
alpine skiing ⓘ
biathlon ⓘ
bobsleigh ⓘ
cross-country skiing ⓘ
figure skating ⓘ
ice hockey ⓘ
luge ⓘ
ski jumping ⓘ
speed skating ⓘ
follows 1964 Winter Olympics ⓘ
goldMedalistInAlpineSkiing Jean-Claude Killy ⓘ
goldMedalistInFigureSkatingLadiesSingles Peggy Fleming ⓘ
hostCity Grenoble ⓘ
hostCitySelectedAt International Olympic Committee Session ⓘ
surface form: Innsbruck Session of the IOC
hostCitySelectionDate 1964-01-28 ⓘ
hostCountry France ⓘ
hostNation France ⓘ
hostRegion Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region ⓘ
surface form: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
introducedEvent luge doubles for women and men combined classification ⓘ
men's 4×7.5 km biathlon relay ⓘ
women's 3×5 km cross-country relay ⓘ
iocPresidentAtTime Avery Brundage ⓘ
legacy development of winter sports infrastructure in Grenoble region ⓘ
mainStadium Stade de Glace ⓘ
motto Les Jeux de la Joie (The Games of Joy) ⓘ
notableAthlete Eugenio Monti NERFINISHED ⓘ
Jean-Claude Killy ⓘ
Peggy Fleming ⓘ
numberOfAthletes 1158 ⓘ
numberOfEvents 35 ⓘ
numberOfFemaleAthletes 211 ⓘ
numberOfMaleAthletes 947 ⓘ
numberOfParticipatingNations 37 ⓘ
numberOfSports 10 ⓘ
officialName X Olympic Winter Games ⓘ
olympiadNumber 10 ⓘ
openingDate 1968-02-06 ⓘ
organizedBy International Olympic Committee ⓘ
partOf Olympic Games ⓘ
precedes 1972 Winter Olympics ⓘ
televisionCoverage broadcast in color in several countries ⓘ
tookPlaceDuring Cold War ⓘ
year 1968 ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Grenoble → hostedEvent → 1968 Winter Olympics ⓘ
1964 Winter Olympics → followedBy → 1968 Winter Olympics ⓘ
Václav Nedomanský → participantIn → 1968 Winter Olympics ⓘ
Ondrej Nepela → competedIn → 1968 Winter Olympics ⓘ
Anatoli Firsov → participantIn → 1968 Winter Olympics ⓘ
1972 Winter Olympics → previousEvent → 1968 Winter Olympics ⓘ
Herbert Paul Brooks Jr. → participantIn → 1968 Winter Olympics ⓘ
Grenoble Alpes–Isère Airport → builtFor → 1968 Winter Olympics ⓘ