The medal design from Lake Placid 1932.

(ATR) Celebrations in Lake Placid this weekend marked the 75th anniversary of the Winter Olympics in upstate New York. The actual dates of the Games were Feb. 4 to 14.

These third winter Olympics attracted 350 athletes from 17 nations. The program included hockey, ski jumping, cross-country skiing, figure skating, speedskating and bobsleigh and three demonstration sports: women's speedskating, curling and sled-dog racing.

The construction budget for the Games was about $700,000, the money used for ski jumps, cross-country ski trails, skating oval, hockey rink and a bobsleigh track.

While the 1932 Winter Olympics were judged a success, weather was a headache, with lack of snow and conditions that led to the four-man bobsleigh race being held after the closing ceremony.

One of the competitors from 1932 made it back for the anniversary, Cecilia Colledge, now 86. A figure skater from Great Britain, Colledge was 11 years old at the time, holding

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt attended the opening ceremony of the Lake Placid Olympics.

the record as the youngest competitor at the Winter Games.

Among the notable medal-winners from Lake Placid 32 were Sonja Henie in figure skating, the ski jumper Birger Ruud, and speedskater Jack Shea.

Shea was one of the leaders of efforts to bring the Games back to Lake Placid in 1980.