GOING GLOBAL
With its move to northern Japan, the Winter Olympics take their first step out of their European/United States comfort zone.
SECOND CHANCE
Sapporo and Japan enjoy an opportunity hina and was forced to withdraw. By 1940, World War II had broken out across the globe, and the Olympics that year and in 1944 were scrapped altogether.
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OUSTED FROM THE OLYMPICS
Just days prior to the Games single out Schranz, who reportedly earns more than $50,000 a year in "testing" ski equipment. All others were allowed to compete.
SCHRANZ FOLLOW-UP
Karl Schranz, who lost a gold medal four years previous because of "the man in black" and an official judgment call, is sent away from the Olympic village. The 33-year-old World Cup champion retires soon thereafter, having never tasted Olympic gold.
TWO WITH THREE
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Once boasting Olympic ice hockeyumping event. The medal sweep serves as the first time in Winter Olympic history that all three medals in an event are won by athletes from a non-European country.
THE REIGN IN SPAIN
Finally ending its Winter Olympic medal drought, Spain celebrates as Francisco Fernandez Ochoa
