United States Olympic ice hockey coach, Herb Brooks, left, speaks to members of the team during a break in practice at the ...

She easily beats Fritzi Burger of Austria and Beatrix Loughran of the U.S. 1932 — Sonja Henie wins her sixth straight world title. Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan orders the arrest of three ...

He previously won a gold medal in boxing light heavyweight division at the 1920 Summer Games in Antwerp, Belgium. 1936 — Sonja Henie of Norway, wins her third consecutive Olympics figure skating gold ...

Though she had yet to turn 24, Sonja Henie arrived in Garmisch as the reigning two-time Olympic champion, seven-time European champion and nine-time world champion, with her tenth and last world crown ...

The free skate was scheduled for 10 February, and Henie’s programme, entitled “Ice Fairy”, saw her take figure skating to a level never before seen at the Olympic Games, as she produced jumps of ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 30, 1924, Gillis Grafström of Sweden won the men’s figure skating gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics. The ...

The next day, Herma Sazbo of Austria won the ladies figure skating event. Even though she finished eighth, 11-year-old Sonja Henie became the world’s darling, winning the next three Olympic golds and ...

The last skater to do that was Norway’s brassy Sonja Henie, who in 1936 danced off the Olympic ice into a $1,000,000 Hollywood contract. Threes & Eights. When Barbara Ann skates, she seems to ...

On the streets of her native Oslo, Sonja Henie causes almost as much of a stir as King Haakon. In the U. S., where she has been developed into a Hollywood cinemactress in the two years since she ...

Sonja Henie of Norway defended her figure skating title ... One of the winning American four-man bobsleigh team members was Eddie Eagan, who won gold in the light-heavyweight boxing event at the ...

The original task for each filmmaker was to keep each short under three minutes, to set it in one hotel room, and to include the sentence “I miss Sonja Henie." This experimental film was shot ...