POSTER SQUAW VALLEY LAKE TAHOE 1960 WINTER OLYMPICS RARE IN FRENCH 1958
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THIS AUCTION IS FOR AN USED LOVELY VINTAGE SINGLE ORIGINAL POSTER TITLED " SQUAW VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, FEVRIER 1960, LES VIIIeme JEUX OLYMPIQUE D'HIVER, COPYRIGHT 1958 CALIFORNIA OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, PRINTED IN USA"
APPROXIMATELY 37 INCHES by 25 INCHES in size..Minor wrinkles/rubbing at the right vertical edge, otherwise a very clean lovely item from 1958.The original owner received these posters in a mailing tube from the Olympic Co...mmittee and probably never ever touched them. From internet:The 1960 Winter Olympics was a winter multi-sport event held between February 18–28, 1960 in Squaw Valley, California, United States. Squaw Valley was chosen to host the Games at the 1956 meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was an undeveloped resort in 1955, so from 1956 to 1960 the infrastructure and all of the venues were built at a cost of US$80, 000, 000. It was designed to be intimate, allowing spectators and competitors to walk to nearly all the venues. Squaw Valley hosted athletes from thirty nations who competed in four sports and twenty-seven events. Women's speed skating and biathlon made their Olympic debuts. The organizers decided the bobsled events did not warrant the cost to build a venue, so for the first and only time bobsled was not on the Winter Olympic program. The Soviet Union dominated the medal count winning twenty-one medals, seven of which were gold. Soviet speed skaters Yevgeny Grishin and Lidiya Skoblikova won two gold medals each. Swedish cross-country skier Sixten Jernberg added a gold and silver to the four medals he won at the 1956 Winter Games.Cold War politics forced the IOC to debate the participation of China, Taiwan, North Korea and East Germany. In 1957 the United States government threatened to deny visas to athletes from Communist countries. The IOC responded with a threat to revoke Squaw Valley's right to host the 1960 Games. The United States conceded and allowed entry to athletes from Communist countries.
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