The Olympic Museum in Lausanne (Switzerland) is at the heart of Olympic culture and heritage. The key storyteller of the Olympic idea, the Museum is not just about the collections, but also a journey ...

Alexander Cushing, a landowner in Squaw Valley – an uninhabited valley overlooking Lake Tahoe and perched 1,900 metres above sea level in California’s Sierra Nevada and 300 kilometres east of San ...

British snowboarder Mia Brookes became slopestyle world champion at the age of 16, and looks set to be one of the sport’s leading lights for many years to come. Born in Sandbach in the north of ...

The Olympic Museum invited Olympian Artist Hannah Wilkinson to create 10 original drawings to mark the inaugural Olympic Esports Week, held in Singapore in June 2023. In response to the unusual ...

Alfred Vincelette competed for the University of Denver, graduating in 1959. He was US Nordic combined champion in 1958-60. Vincelette later became a sales rep for the ski industry, representing ...

The first Olympic Winter Games were held in 1924 in the French Alps. Over 10 days, the host town of Chamonix brought together athletes from 16 nations. The event was initially an integral part of the ...

Elfriede Steurer was Austrian champion in 100 metres (1948 and 1952), 200 metres (1954), 4×100 relay (1943 and 1954), and 80 metres hurdles (1943-1948, 1950, 1953, and 1954). In the 1950 European ...

Sunao Okamoto played singles and doubles at the 1924 Olympics. He also competed at Wimbledon in 1924, losing in round one of singles to René Lacoste and making the third round in doubles. Okamoto also ...

Jónas Þórarinn Ásgeirsson was born in Húsavik, but his family moved to Siglufjörður the year after his birth. He was an excellent all-round skier, with ski jumping as his speciality. In 1946 he jumped ...

Miguel Altube was a member of the gold medal winning team at the 1979 Pan American Games as well as of the silver medal winning teams at the 1983 and 1987 Pan American Games.