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1928 Winter Olympics The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games (french: IIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; german: II. Olympische Winterspiele; it, II Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, II Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. M ...

St. Moritz St. Moritz (also german: Sankt Moritz, rm, , it, San Maurizio, french: Saint-Moritz) is a high Alpine resort town in the Engadine in Switzerland, at an elevation of about above sea level. It is Upper Engadine's major town and a municipality in ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

, a total of five sports venues were used. The main stadium hosted the figure skating, ice hockey, and speed skating events. Skeleton was first held at the Cresta Run. Bobsleigh was held at the bob run. St. Moritz itself served as cross-country skiing venue and the cross-country part of the Nordic combined event. Weather gave two events run at these games problems, creating the largest margin of victory in Olympic history for one and the cancellation of the other.

Venues

During the Olympics

The 50 km cross-country skiing event took place on 14 February around the hills of St. Moritz with time markers at Silvaplan (), Sils (), Plaun da Lei (), Maloja (), Isola (), Fex (), and Surlej () before returning to St. Moritz. There was an ) change in elevation during the 50 km race. The race was also unusual in the sense of the extreme change in weather when it started at nearly and ended at .Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2009). "Cross-Country (Nordic) Skiing, Men: 50 Kilometers". In ''The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition''. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 232. It would produce the largest margin of victory in Olympic history with

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's Per-Erik Hedlund beating fellow Swede

Gustaf Jonsson Karl Gustaf Jonsson (7 July 1903 – 30 July 1990) was a Swedish cross-country skier. He competed in the 50 km event at the 1928 and 1932 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1928, finishing ninth four years later. At the Nordic World Ski C ...

by 13 minutes and 27 seconds. On that same day in the 10,000 m speed skating event at the ice rink, the event was stopped 2000 meters into the fifth and final pair due to thawing ice.Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2009). "Speed Skating, Men: 10,000 Meters". In ''The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2010 Edition''. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 115. Officials in charge ordered the day's times cancelled and the races rerun. The problem was that by the time the decision was reached to rerun the event,

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had made it clear that

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Irving Jaffee Irving Warren Jaffee (September 15, 1906 in New York City – March 20, 1981 in San Diego, California) was an American speed skater who won two gold medals at the 1932 Winter Olympics, becoming the most successful athlete there along with h ...

was event champion and had left for their home country. The contest was cancelled as a result. Skaters involved in the event considered it settled when Jaffee came from behind to edge Norway's Bernt Evensen in the opening pair. According to David Wallechinsky, most sports historians consider the 1928 10,000 m to be a non-event.

After the Olympics

All five venues used for these games were reused for the Winter Olympics held in St. Moritz

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. The bob run, which opened in 1904, is still in use and has hosted the FIBT World Championships a record 22 times, most recently in

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.FIBT men's skeleton world championships results since 1989.
Accessed 10 October 2010. The ski jump was built originally in 1905 and renovated in 1927 for the 1928 Games.
Accessed 10 October 2010. It was renovated in 1963 to get it to the K-point of . It was closed in 2006.

References

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