Editing 1932 Winter Olympics (section)

==Highlights==
* American company [[Coca-Cola]] became the official provider of that games' soft drinks and would remain so for all subsequent winter Olympics (as of 2024).
* The Games were opened by [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], then the [[Governor of New York]].  He would be elected [[President of the United States]] nine months later.
* The victory [[podium]] was used for the first time at the winter games.<ref name=Podium> Martin, D. E., Martin, D. A., & Gynn, R. W. (2000). The olympic marathon. Human Kinetics. p. 146. </ref><ref name=IOC-LETTER>In a letter dated May 1931, the IOC president, Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, advised the organizing committees of both summer and winter games that athletes should "stand on three pedestals, with the centre one higher than the two others." See Martin (2000) and Olympic.org article "1932: THE PODIUM MAKES ITS OLYMPIC DEBUT".</ref> Speed skater Jack Shea became the first Olympic champion to receive a gold medal on the podium.<ref name ="Podium-two">{{cite web | url=https://www.olympic.org/news/1932-the-podium-makes-its-olympic-debut | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804141633/https://www.olympic.org/news/1932-the-podium-makes-its-olympic-debut | url-status=dead | archive-date=August 4, 2020 | title=1932: THE PODIUM MAKES ITS OLYMPIC DEBUT |author=IOC| date=October 20, 2017 | access-date=July 19, 2020}}</ref> 
* [[Billy Fiske]] (who would win his second gold medal at Lake Placid, having won his first at 16 in the [[1928 Winter Olympics]]), carried the flag for the United States in the opening ceremonies. A planner of a winter resort in Aspen, Colorado, he was killed in 1940 flying in the [[Battle of Britain]].
* [[Sonja Henie]] won the second of three consecutive Olympic gold medals in [[figure skating]]. She also won gold in 1928 and 1936.<ref name ="100 Greatest">Greenspan, Bud, ''100 Greatest Moments in Olympic History,'' General Publishing Group, Inc., 1995, pp. 88</ref>
* [[Irving Jaffee]] won the {{convert|5000|m|mi|abbr=on}} and the {{convert|10000|m|mi|abbr=on}} [[speed skating]] gold medals, beating previous champion and world record holder [[Ivar Ballangrud]] in the 10,000 m by {{convert|4.5|m|0|abbr=on}}.
* [[Eddie Eagan]] became the only Olympian to win gold medals at both the summer and winter games in different sports. He won gold in boxing in the [[1920 Summer Olympics|1920 Antwerp summer games]] and gold in bobsleigh at Lake Placid. The bobsleigh race was held two days after the games' closing ceremonies due to unseasonably warm weather in the region the week prior.<ref name ="SI The Olympics">Johnson, William Oscar, ''The Olympics: A History of the Games,'' Oxmoor House, Inc., 1993, pp. 60-61.</ref> 
*[[Georg Gyssling]], a member of the [[Nazi Party]], joined a newly created four man bobsledding team after half the German team was injured in several violent crashes on Mount Van Hoevenberg. [[René Fonjallaz]], a future Nazi propagandist{{clarify|date=August 2021}} on the Swiss team, was also injured and left unconscious for five minutes after a crash during a practice run.<ref name ="Speed Kings"> King, D. (2015). Speed Kings: The 1932 Winter Olympics and the Fastest Men in the World.</ref>
* The [[United States at the 1932 Winter Olympics|United States]] topped the medal count with a total of 12 medals (6 gold, 4 silver, and 2 bronze). This was the only time the U.S. led the overall medal standings at the Winter Olympics until the [[2010 Winter Olympics medal table|2010 Games in Vancouver]], and the only time the United States won the most gold medals.
* Seventeen countries participated.