1968 Olympics

The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games, was a multi-sport winter festival that was held in Grenoble, France in 1968 and opened on February 6. Thirty-countries attended. In all the alpine skiing events the Frenchman Jean-Claude Killy has won three gold medals. Peggy Fleming won the United States 'first female figure skating gold medal. The games are allocated for making U.S. More famous Winter Olympics, not least due to ABC's intensive coverage of Fleming and Killy, who were instantly celebrity youngsters. The year 1968 marked the first time that the IOC had allowed East and West Germany to compete independently and the IOC for the first time required mandatory alcohol and gender testing. François Raoul, Prefect of the Isère Département, and Raoul Arduin, Chairman of the Dauphiné Ski Federation, publicly proposed the possibility of staging the 1968 Olympic Winter Games in Grenoble on 24 November 1960 for the first time. After the city council decided in principle, numerous government departments offered their assistance and the villagers around Grenoble reacted favourably, Albert Michallon, the former mayor of Grenoble, formed and chaired a plan committee on 30 December 1960. The recommendation was formally made to the IOC at a conference held in Lausanne in February 1963 involving IOC executives and members of international sporting organisations. In this case, the decision was not focused purely on sport as there were only two relevant sporting competitions in the Isère Department, the 1951 Bobsleigh World Championships in L'Alpe d'Huez and the 1959 Luge World Championships in Villard-de-Lans. Grenoble's population rose from 102,000 to 159,000 during 1946 and 1962, and the total population in Isère's department dropped from 139,000 to 250,000. Technology advancement was unable to keep pace with this exponential growth, and was essentially trapped at the same stage as before World War II. Many responsible have never kept it a secret that it is only for them to use the Olympic Games to get bigger funds to quickly improve outdated infrastructure to boost local economies. After Grenoble was chosen as the host city, the organising committee was determined by the French National Olympic Sports Committee. The game was first arranged by the Comité d'Organisation des dixièmes Jeux Olympiques, the body to coordinate the 10th Olympic Games, on 1 August 1964. Albert Michallon was the president of COJO, and was the former mayor of Grenoble. The upper panel consisted of the general assembly and its 340 members, and the advisory board was in charge of doing business and 39 members, 19 of whom were named and the other 20 elected. The Secretary General is comprised of five primary offices and 17 regional departments. In February 1968, the number of workers rose to 1920. They carried out "World Sports Weeks" to test the new sporting facility and develop the operational processes. Speed skating contests and ski races were held from 20 January to 19 February 1967, an ice hockey demonstration from 12 to 15 October 1967 and a figure-skiing contest from 23 to 25 November. On 16 December 1967 in ancient Greece the Olympic torch was illuminated at Olympia. The ceremony was initially expected to take place on 13 December but had to be delayed due to King Constantine II's coup d'état, which had been pushed out of his seat eight months ago, against Georgios Papadopoulos 'dictatorial military rule. Originally the torch relay path led from Mount Olympus to Athens. From there the torch was transported by an Air France Boeing 707 to Paris-Orly airport. The 1960 Downhill Olympic gold medalist Jean Vuarnet, who turned it over to the first torchbearer Alain Mimoun, the 1956 marathon Olympic gold medalist, got the torch there on 19 December. The emblem shows a spinning snow diamond flanked by three stylised roses and on top of the Olympic Rings in one hue. The roses are contained in the same style as the Symbol of Grenoble. The emblem covers the 1968 Grenoble "Xes Jeux Olympiques d'Hiver"