About the Games
At the opening ceremony of the X Olympic Winter Games, after the Olympic oath was recited over the stadium, a crimson rain fell from the sky: 30,000 red roses were dropped onto the stadium from helicopters.
A sensation of the X Olympic Winter Games was the victorious performance of Soviet ski jumper Vladimir Belousov — the only gold medal in ski jumping in the country’s history.
The stylized skier “Schuss” — a toy created for the X Olympic Winter Games — became so popular that Schuss became the first unofficial Olympic mascot.
