TURIN, Feb. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- 2nd Olympic Winter Games:

    The 1928 Winter Games, hosted by St. Moritz, Switzerland, were the first to be held in a different nation than the Summer Games of the same year. A new event was contested: the skeleton, which is like luge except that the athletes descend headfirst. Speed skater A. Clas Thunberg added two more gold medals to the three hehad won in 1924. Johan Grottumbraten of Norway won the 18km cross-country event and the Nordic combined. Another Norwegian, Sonja Henie, caused a sensation by winning the women's figure skating atthe age of fifteen. Her record as the youngest winner of an individual event stood for 74 years. In men's figure skating, Gillis Grafstrom of Sweden won his third straight gold medal. Canada again dominated the ice hockey tournament, winning their three matches 11-0, 14-0 and 13-0.

    Numbers:

    25 NOCs

    464 athletes (26 women, 438 men)

    14 eventsEnditem