Olympics

Winter 1952
Oslo Winter Games

The Canadian ice hockey team wins their seventh gold medal in eight Olympics; it will be fifty years before they win another.

Summer 1952
Helsinki Summer Games

Russian athletes participate for the first time in forty years

Winter 1956
Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games

The Soviets break Canada's gold-medal record in ice hockey, and win more medals than anybody else

Summer 1956
Melbourne Summer Games

The Soviets dominate winning 98 medals, while the Americans take 74.

In the Closing Ceremonies, for the first time, athletes from all nations enter the stadium in unity, rather than marching in by nation.