At the time, Lake Placid was a town with a population of fewer than 4,000 people. Faced with major obstacles to raise money in the midst of a depression, Mr Godfrey Dewey, President of the Organising Committee, donated a plot of land belonging to his family for the construction of the bobsleigh track. --- Lake Placid 1932 - Two-men bobsleigh, Reto Capadrutt & Oscar Geier (SUI) .
