For the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland, a total of eight sports venues were used.
[7][8] Switzerland itself hosted the Ice Hockey World Championships twice in between the 1928 and 1948 Games, doing so in 1935 and 1939 though neither took place in St.
[10] Midway through the second run of the bobsleigh four-man event, a water pipe burst which halted competition.
[13] The bob run has hosted the FIBT World Championships sixteen more times since the 1948 Games, most recently in 2007.
[7][8][14] St. Moritz hosted its first recorded alpine skiing World Cup event in 1971.