Editing 1968 Winter Olympics (section)

== Highlights and controversies ==
[[File:Ans Schut 1968.jpg|thumb|220px|[[Ans Schut]] after setting an Olympic record on 3000 m in 1968]]
[[File:JO-Grenoble1968-Slalom géant-Killy.jpg|thumb|right|Arrival of [[Jean-Claude Killy]]]]
[[File:Chamrousse-Jeux olympiques-1968.jpg|thumb|right|Site of Chamrousse (1968)]]

* These were the first Winter Olympics on which doping control tests were performed.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dimeo|first=Paul|title=A History of Drug use in Sport 1876–1976: Beyond Good and Evil|year=2009|publisher=T & F Books UK (Kindle Edition)|pages=419–420|isbn=9780415357722}}</ref>
* [[Norway at the 1968 Winter Olympics|Norway]] won the most medals, 6 gold, 6 silver, and 2 bronze, the first time a country other than the [[Soviet Union at the Olympics|Soviet Union]] had done so since the USSR first entered the Winter Games in 1956.
* In the downhill alpine skiing event, the French [[Jean-Claude Killy]] navigated the track with a time of 1:59.85 and won the gold medal. 
* Killy also swept the other men's alpine events, winning three gold medals overall, but only after one of the greatest controversies in the history of the Winter Olympics. Austrian superstar [[Karl Schranz]] claimed that a mysterious man dressed in black crossed his path during the slalom race, causing him to skid to a halt. Given a restart, Schranz beat Killy's time. However, a Jury of Appeal disqualified Schranz and gave the medal to Killy.<ref>[http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1968 Olympic.org]</ref>
* In women's luge, there were three East German racers [[Ortrun Enderlein]], [[Anna-Maria Müller]], and [[Angela Knösel]] in the top 4 after three runs, but they were disqualified when the [[International Luge Federation]] (FIL) determined that they had been heating their runners, a banned practice. Italian [[Erika Lechner]], third after three runs, was moved into first place, and won gold after the fourth run was cancelled due to bad weather. West German media alleged race fixing,<ref>''Der Spiegel''  19 February 1968: ''[http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-46122803.html DDR-Mannschaft: Graue Perlen.]''</ref> while the GDR sports officials blamed the West German Luge Association for staging the incident.<ref name="OS 1968">Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Olympischen Gedankens in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik: ''X. Olympische Winterspiele Grenoble 1968.'' Sportverlag, Berlin, 1968, p. 31 et seq. and p. 165</ref> According to [[Stasi]] documents which came to light in 2006, the FIL official who made the decision had allegedly been bribed by the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria to make the allegation.<ref name="Teuffel">Friedhard Teuffel: ''[http://www.pnn.de/sport/266102/ Schnee, der auf Kufen schmilzt.]''</ref><ref>[[Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk|MDR]]: ''[http://www.mdr.de/damals/archiv/artikel93502.html Betrug auf Kufen? – Der Skandal 1968 in Grenoble.]''</ref> The question of whether the GDR lugers really cheated remains unresolved, with some contemporary media in Germany maintaining that the GDR team were unfairly disqualified.<ref>''[http://www.focus.de/sport/wintersport/rodeln-rodel-olympiasiegerin-mueller-tot_aid_432438.html Rodel-Olympiasiegerin Müller tot (Focus)]'', ''[http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-66803992.html Gestorben: Anna-Maria Müller (Spiegel)]''</ref>
* Swedish skier [[Toini Gustafsson]] was a star in women's cross-country events, winning both individual races and earning a silver medal in the relay.
* American figure skater [[Peggy Fleming]] built up a huge lead after the compulsory figures and won the first-place votes of all nine judges.<ref>[http://en.beijing2008.cn/spirit/pastgames/winterolympics/grenoble1968/n214049648.shtml Beijing 2008] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071101035947/http://en.beijing2008.cn/spirit/pastgames/winterolympics/grenoble1968/n214049648.shtml |date=1 November 2007 }}</ref> Her victory marked the first gold medal won by an American after the 1961 [[Sabena Flight 548]] incident when the entire US figure skating team died, and heralded an American figure skating renaissance.<ref name="StillCrystalClear">{{Cite news|url=http://www.espn.com/espn/eticket/story?page=110215/skatingcrash&redirected=true|title=Still Crystal Clear|last=Ford|first=Bonnie D.|year=2011|publisher=ESPN|access-date=February 19, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Lyudmila Belousova]] and [[Oleg Protopopov]] successfully defended their pairs figure skating title from [[1964 Winter Olympics|Innsbruck]] for the Soviet Union.
* The Italian bobsleigh pilot [[Eugenio Monti]] drove both the two-man and four-man events to win gold. All bobsleigh contests had to be scheduled to start before sunrise and end shortly after dawn because the track at [[L'Alpe d'Huez]] was designed with insufficient cooling capability and could not keep the ice solid in bright daylight.
* In speed skating, the women's 3,000-metre event turned out to be particularly fast, with the first 10 finishers beating the previous Olympic record set in [[1960 Winter Olympics]]. However, the gold medallist, the Netherlands' [[Johanna Schut]], was unable to beat the world record—until the next year on the same oval in Grenoble.
* The 1968 Winter Olympics were the first to use "[[Bugler's Dream]]" by [[Leo Arnaud]] as the theme for Olympic television coverage on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]. It was also the first Olympics to be broadcast in color.
* Italian cross-country skier [[Franco Nones]] became the first athlete not from Norway, Sweden, Finland, or the Soviet Union to win an Olympic medal in cross-country skiing.