Date and place| 8th Olympic Winter Games 1960 Squaw Valley , February 18 to 28 |
StatisticsNumber of participants: 665 (521 men and 144 women)
Total spectators: 249,653
Olympic Oath: Carol Heiss (United States, figure skater)
Olympic flame: Kenneth Henry (United States, skater)
Participating countries: 30
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, East and West Germany, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Soviet Union, Spain , Tsiechoslowakije, Turkey, United States, Iceland, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland |
Accomodations| Nordic combined at the ski stadium in McKinney Creek Park in Kailua (altitude: 1910 m, spectator capacity: 2000), and at the Olympic Ski (critical point: 80.5 m, spectator capacity: 80,000), alpine skiing at Squaw Peak (men's downhill : starts at an altitude of 2707 m, height: 758 m), KT 22 descent ladies: start at an altitude of 2447 m, height: 553 m, men's slalom: at a height of 2134 m, height: 590 m) and by Little Papoose Peak (giant slalom Women: start at a high of 2276 m, 256 m altitude; slalom Women: start at an altitude of 2110 m, height: 186 m), biathlon in the ski stadium in McKinney Creek, skating and ice hockey in the Blyth Arena (ice rink with hall, spectator capacity: 9000), speed skating at the 400 m ice rink of the Ice Stadium. |
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