Talk:1952 Winter Olympics medal count

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The US flag used on this page is invalid. In 1952, the US flag had 48 stars. RickK 20:25, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Problem with country names

According to the official medal count for this year on olympic.org, the two German NOCs that played in the games were FRG (West Germany) and GER (Germany). In our ranking table, we called them East and West Germany.

I'm confused. King nothing 2 11:40, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

I am confused by the IOC page too. All the references I've seen show GER only for the pre-WWII games and 1992 onwards. From 1956-64 (both summer & winter, 6 games total) they competed as EUA (United Team of Germany). For 1968-88, they competed as FRG and GDR. In 1948, they were not invited. That leaves 1952 as unclear, and the IOC results tables show GER at the summer and both GER and FRG at the winter games, which doesn't make sense to me. The Wikipedia page for the EUA team says that only West Germany competed in the 1952 summer games but both teams went to the 1952 winter games. I would have expected FRG & GDR for those instances. I will look for other references. Andrwsc 00:32, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

According to the official report from the Oslo olympics [1], as well as a book I have and the German Wikipedia, there was only one German team at the Oslo olympics. I think this is probably the case. Moszczynski 03:41, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Confusion about German teams

Well, this is quite interesting -- and somewhat confusing! I read the Oslo report and it is clearly just a single "Germany". In that report, the medal winners listed for Germany are:

• Gold
  • Ria Falk & Paul Falk — Figure skating pairs
  • Andreas Ostler & Lorenz Nieberl — Bobsleigh two-man
  • Andreas Ostler, Friedrich Kuhn, Lorenz Nieberl, Franz Kemser — Bobsleigh four-man
• Silver
  • Annemarie Buchner — Women's downhill
  • Ossi Reichert — Women's slalom
• Bronze
  • Annemarie Buchner — Women's giant slalom
  • Annemarie Buchner — Women's slalom

However, the IOC website (medal count here) shows two German teams. They attribute the two bobsleigh gold to teams from "FRG", but the remaining medals are attributed to "GER". I'm not sure how we should reconcile this on Wikipedia -- suggestions anyone?? Andrwsc 23:59, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, it's been several months with no discussion, so I'm going to make some changes. I find no evidence that East Germany competed at these Games, and that all medals should be attributed to West Germany. I can't explain why the IOC database splits them into "FRG" for the bobsliegh events and "GER" for the rest. I think the most logical conclusion is to use "FRG" for all, as I think "GER" should only refer to the times when the nation was unified. Andrwsc 22:54, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

In contrary, "GER" is to be used. The current state of the IOC database, attributing two medals for FRG, is nonsensical. There was only one team, representing Germany.-- Matthead ^discuß!     O       20:11, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Please don't start making changes without some further discussion here, or better, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Olympics. Thanks, Andrwsc 20:47, 22 August 2007 (UTC)