Way back in 1928, "skijoring" was one of two demonstration sports to be showcased at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics. The ...

American Jennison Heaton won the first Olympic skeleton gold medal at St Moritz in 1928, beating his brother John, who took the silver. Jennison then won a silver in the five man bobsleigh in the same ...

Estonia has sent a total of 32 competitors, 16 women and 16 men, to the ongoing Milano Cortina Winter Olympics in Italy, but ...

Mexico made its debut in the Winter Olympics at St Moritz in 1928 when they competed in the five-man bobsleigh, finishing 11th. They did not take part in the Winter Games again until Sarajevo 1984 ...

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 St.

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