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1968 winter olympics - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com (110 words) |
 | The X Olympic Winter Games were held in 1968 Grenoble, France and opened on February 6. |
| Norway won the most medals, the first time a country other than the USSR had done so since the USSR first entered the Winter Games in 1956. |
| The year 1968 marked the first time the IOC first permitted East and West Germany to enter separately, and the first time the IOC ever ordered drug and gender testing of competitors. |
| 1968 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (246 words) |
| The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1968 Grenoble, France and opened on February 6. |
| The games have been credited with making the Winter Olympics more popular in the United States, not least of which because of ABC's extensive coverage of Fleming and Killy, who became overnight sensations among teenage girls. |
| Grenoble 1968 is the first Olympiad to adopt a mascot, albeit unofficially. |
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