Editing 1960 Winter Olympics (section)

=== Alpine skiing ===
{{Main|Alpine skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics}}
Despite the facilities being constructed from scratch at Squaw Valley, the resort did have steep mountain slopes in close proximity, resulting in some of the most difficult [[alpine skiing]] courses in Olympic history.<ref name=judd/> Both men and women competed in the downhill, giant slalom and slalom with all 6 events held between February 20 and 26.<ref name=sras>{{cite web|title=Alpine Skiing at the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Games|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1960/ASK/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417063603/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1960/ASK/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 17, 2020|access-date=August 11, 2011}}</ref> The men's downhill was won by [[France at the 1960 Winter Olympics|Frenchman]] [[Jean Vuarnet]] who changed the sport by becoming the first Olympic champion to use metal skis.<ref name=judd/> [[Switzerland at the 1960 Winter Olympics|Swiss]] skier [[Roger Staub]] won the giant slalom and [[Ernst Hinterseer]] from [[Austria at the 1960 Winter Olympics|Austria]] was the slalom champion. German [[Heidi Biebl]] won the women's downhill, [[Yvonne Rüegg]] of Switzerland won the giant slalom and [[Anne Heggtveit]] from Canada won the slalom. [[Penny Pitou]] of the United States was the only multiple medal winner with two silvers in the downhill and giant slalom.<ref name=sras/>