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 * 1950's Winter Olympics**

Finland the winter Olympics started in the 1952 the united states held there competition until the USSR's They had thirty participating nations. These were some of the sports that the people did Bobsleigh Figure skating Ice hockey Nordic skiing Cross-country skiing Nordic combined Ski jumping Speed skating Dick Button, who had revolutionized figure skating with his athletic jumps and spins at St. Moritz in 1948, repeated his gold medal performance in '52. The 22–year-old Harvard senior also won the world championship for the fifth straight year, and then turned pro.