St. Moritz 15 m) to the Lake St. Moritz shoreline provides excellent heart of the action viewing for the audience. Thanks to its favorable location, St. Moritz enjoys over 300 days of sunshine a year. Every winter it hosts the "White Turf" horse race on the frozen Lake St. Moritz attended by the international upper class. Popular pastimes include skiing, snowboarding, and hiking, and nearby there is also the world-famous Cresta Run toboggan course. The year-round population is 5,600, with some 3,000 seasonal employees supporting hotels and rental units with a total of 13,000 beds. St Moritz has a subarctic climate only
John Heaton (athlete) 1959 and Beatrix Bayer in 1965. Heaton competed in three Winter Olympics in 1928, 1932, and 1948. He won two silver medals in the skeleton in 1928 and 1948, and one bronze in the bobsled in 1932. At the 1948 games in St. Moritz, Switzerland, he was the American team's flag bearer at the opening ceremonies. In the late 1920s, Heaton toured the world with friends Billy Fiske (fellow Olympic medalist and World War II hero) and Francis "Frankie" Rhodes (nephew of Cecil Rhodes). They traveled to Tahiti, Bali, India and South Africa. The Heaton Gold Cup was presented in