‘An Olympic miracle’: twist in Conan Doyle’s skimo story as Russian snares silver | Winter Olympics 2026
We can partly thank Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for popularizing the Winter Olympics’ latest sport, which made its debut amid an unrelenting snowstorm, a contact of mayhem and no little controversy in Bormio. In 1894, the 12 months after he had killed off Sherlock Holmes on the Reichenbach Falls, Conan Doyle wrote about his personal…
