Editing 1948 Winter Olympics (section)

===Ice hockey===
{{Main|Ice hockey at the 1948 Winter Olympics}}
The [[ice hockey]] tournament was won by [[Canada men's national ice hockey team|Canada]], with [[Czechoslovakia at the 1948 Winter Olympics|Czechoslovakia]] second and [[Switzerland at the 1948 Winter Olympics|Switzerland]] third.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ice Hockey at the 1948 Sankt Moritz Winter Games: Men's Ice Hockey |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1948/ICH/mens-ice-hockey.html |access-date=28 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903111140/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1948/ICH/mens-ice-hockey.html |archive-date=3 September 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> This was the fifth Olympic gold medal for Canada in hockey. The only team to beat Canada since hockey was introduced at the [[1920 Summer Olympics]] was [[Great Britain at the 1936 Winter Olympics]].<ref>Buchanon and Mallon (2006), pp.45–46</ref>  The tournament was almost canceled when rival teams representing the [[United States]] arrived. An [[Amateur Athletic Union]] (AAU) team was supported by the [[United States Olympic Committee]] (USOC), and an [[Amateur Hockey Association of the United States|Amateur Hockey Association]] (AHA) team was supported by the [[Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace]] (LIHG).<ref name="findling316"/>  The [[International Olympic Committee]] ruled that neither team could compete. Still, the Swiss organizing committee allowed the AAU team to march in the [[Olympic Games ceremony|opening ceremony]] and the AHA team to play unofficially without being eligible for medals.<ref name=findling317>Findling & Pelle (2004), p. 317</ref>