WINTER OLYMPICS 1948

foreign of the present-day better expresses The Olympian Spirit than winter sport because with its boundless Treasure of strength Health and Beauty it can give to all mankind joy and restitution foreign [Music] into the light into the sun and the snow up and up to where the mountains meet the sky the roof of the world the owls together thank you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] down below us lies celebrated memories the winter sports Metropolis of universe and hosts to the 1948 Winter Olympic Games foreign [Music] the Alpine Sunset gives promise of a smiling sky on the great tomorrow to come that promise was fulfilled the day was full of sunshine [Music] no a solemn moment as hundreds and hundreds of athletes representing 28 Nations repeated the Olympic oath foreign [Music] the American team presented each of the Swiss players with a jacket [Music] this was the first game of the series the ice was good the play Fast yet Fair [Music] the Swiss finally won by the narrow margin of five to four later on the Canadians played the swedes this was a half fourth game but the man of Sweden had to give way to the superior play of the Canadians the final results were Canada first Czechoslovakia 2nd and Switzerland third at the restaurant for the finals of the skeleton [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign here's a close call but this one's over [Music] here he is disappointed but fortunately not greatly damaged after finish eating of America who placed second describes a near spell foreign [Music] but he doesn't know it yet no he does [Music] the start of the 18 kilometer cross country foreign [Music] the heavy favorite is operator terrific rate among the runners representing 15 Nations the swedes and the fins were the leading contenders for cross country is two Scandinavians what baseball is to Americans [Music] a 30-second intervals the men were sent off under long hard task over better than 11 miles of snowy track uphill downhill over long Flats through the woods over dips and bumps and never-ending variation of terrain here at the halfway mark is finland's azuhaiki who finished fourth [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] at The Nine Mile mark his speed was amazing his powerful Sprite barely ate up the course this after one hour of steady all-out going [Music] back at the finish one hour and 13 minutes after he started one final flurry of speed brought lunch throne in the winner and Olympic champion [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] Niels Carlson another sweet finished in fifth place [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] number 50 Niels Austin also of Sweden finished in second place 32 seconds behind the winner [Music] thank you one by one the contestants made a final effort to reach their goals [Music] um these two men a Swede and the Swiss have bottled one another over the entire 11 Mile Stretch and taxed their energy to the utmost [Music] these pictures tell far better than words what a race of this Soul takes out of a man [Music] foreign speed skating was one Mad Dash from start to finish [Music] foreign [Music] heat after another flash by as the man raced against time [Music] not always helgeson was the winner with byberg also of Norway in a three-way tie for second place with America's Bartholomew and Fitzgerald [Music] body contestants were entered in the 5000 meter race in this three and one eight mile event the skaters averaged well over 20 miles an hour [Music] Henry of America and McKay of Canada went all out [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] who was timed at eight minutes 29.4 seconds [Music] Lundberg also of Norway was second with Headland of Sweden in third place [Music] next came the 10 000 meter or sixth one quarter mile event this was definitely the most strenuous Ice event and the great strain coupled with the high elevation forced many contestants to abandon the race foreign [Music] travels the same distance the contestants change track upon a signal from the flag man [Music] safer of Sweden captured top honors with a time of 17 minutes 26.3 seconds this is the view we enjoyed from our vantage point at a spot called the big dip about the halfway mark on the ladies downhill cross [Music] the Young The Not So Young and the very young over here [Music] the time is up the races are here is number one foreign [Music] of Canada takes a spill our chances are gone Gretchen Fraser [Music] Andrea me roller Khan further down the course this is Lena mitner she finished fifth Georgia Miller Falls losing lots of time [Music] Suzanne tioliere of France who finished sex [Music] Rudy beiser of Austria took second place [Applause] Eddie sluneker of Switzerland she had the fastest time [Music] fourth place winner chalina Sega of Italy [Music] foreign of Norway tied for seventh place [Music] with Housewives genu of France [Music] Lucian Schmidt kutte of France finished in 10th position [Music] third place honors went to Austria's crazy hammer [Music] there was only a difference of seven seconds between the times of the first and tenth places that tells the story of Team competition among the girls Teddy schluenegger the new Olympic downhill champion at the top of the combination slalom we see nogler of Austria Albero of Italy monitor of Switzerland [Music] of France laughs Hansen of Sweden good day for France [Music] Jack reddish from Utah [Music] entering the last gates at the finish of the special slalom is Austria's Eddie Mall ore of France good day also of France Switzerland's Molly tour Battle of Austria Eddie reinhaldder of Switzerland heading for the gold medal Sweden's handsome [Music] Barney McLean of Colorado [Music] chironi of Italy Colo of Italy America's Jack reddish [Music]