Skeleton at the 1948 Winter Olympics in skeleton at the 1928 Winter Olympics. Skeleton at the 1948 Winter Olympics Medals awarded for the skeleton discipline at the 1948 Winter Olympics held in St Moritz. At that time the sport was called cresta, and St. Moritz had the most famous Cresta Run, dating to 1884. In many locations the sport was referred to as tobogganing during these and the 1928 Games. The contest was run over a total of six runs. Turn 10 at Cesana Pariol, where the bobsled, luge, and skeleton competitions took place for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, is named for Bibbia.
Moritz Hartmann Moritz Hartmann Moritz Hartmann (15 October 1821 - 13 May 1872) was a German poet, politician and author. Hartmann was born of Jewish parentage at Duschnik (, also known as "Trhové Dušníky") in Bohemia. As a young man, Hartmann abandoned Judaism although he never formally converted to Christianity. Having studied philosophy at Prague and Vienna, he travelled in south Germany, Switzerland and Italy, and became tutor in a family at Vienna. In 1845, he proceeded to Leipzig and there published a volume of patriotic poems, "Kelch und Schwert" (1845). Fearing in consequence prosecution at the hands of the authorities, he