1968 Winter Olympics

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Template:Olympics infobox The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1968 Grenoble, France and opened on February 6. Thirty-seven countries participated. Norway won the most medals, the first time a country other than the USSR had done so since the USSR first entered the Winter Games in 1956.

Frenchman Jean-Claude Killy won three gold medals in all the alpine skiing events. In women's figure skating, Peggy Fleming won the only United States gold medal.

The year 1968 marked the first time the IOC first permitted East and West Germany to enter separately, and the first time the IOC ever ordered drug and gender testing of competitors.

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Highlights

Grenoble 1968 is the first Olympiad to adopt a mascot, albeit unofficially. "Schuss", the mascot, is a styled skier. [1]

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Medal winners

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Medal count

(Host nation in bold.)

1968 Winter Olympics medal count					Image:Olympic rings.svg
Pos.	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Image:Flag of Norway.svg Norway	6	6	2	14
2	Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg USSR	5	5	3	13
3	Image:Flag of France.svg France	4	3	2	9
4	Template:ITA	4	0	0	4
5	Image:Flag of Austria.svg Austria	3	4	4	11
6	Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands	3	3	3	9
7	Image:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden	3	2	3	8
8	Image:Flag of Germany.svg West Germany	2	2	3	7
9	Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States	1	5	1	7
10	Image:Flag of Finland.svg Finland	1	2	2	5
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