Louis Saint-Calbre
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Louis Saint-Calibre was a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 bobsledder who competed in the late 1940s. At the 1948 Winter Olympics
1948 Winter Olympics
The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated in 1948 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The Games were the first to be celebrated after World War II; it had been twelve years since the last Winter Games in 1936...

 in St. Moritz
St. Moritz
St. Moritz is a resort town in the Engadine valley in Switzerland. It is a municipality in the district of Maloja in the Swiss canton of Graubünden...

, he finished 12th in the two-man event
Bobsleigh at the 1948 Winter Olympics - Two-man
The two-man bobsleigh results at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz. The competition was held on Friday, January 30, 1948 and on Saturday, January 31, 1948.-Medal table:-Results:-References:*...

 as well as 13th in the four-man event
Bobsleigh at the 1948 Winter Olympics - Four-man
The four-man bobsleigh results at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The competition was held on Friday, February 6, 1948 and on Saturday, February 7, 1948.-Medal table:-Results:...

.

Four years later he finished eleventh in the four-man event
Bobsleigh at the 1952 Winter Olympics - Four-man
The four-man bobsleigh results at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway. The competition was held on Thursday, February 21, 1952 and on Friday, February 22, 1952.-Medallists:-Results:-References:*...

 at the 1952 Winter Olympics
1952 Winter Olympics
The 1952 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VI Olympic Winter Games, took place in Oslo, Norway, from 14 to 25 February 1952. Discussions about Oslo hosting the Winter Olympic Games began as early as 1935; the city wanted to host the 1948 Games, but World War II made that impossible...

.

Saint-Calibre later was involved in the unsuccessful design for the bobsleigh
Bobsleigh
Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of two or four make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled that are combined to calculate the final score....

 course to be used for the 1960 Winter Olympics
1960 Winter Olympics
The 1960 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VIII Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event held between February 18 and 28, 1960 in Squaw Valley, California, United States. In 1955 at the 50th IOC meeting, the organizing committee made the surprise choice to award Squaw Valley as...

 in Squaw Valley, specifically with costs related to the course itself (USD
United States dollar
The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies....

300,000) instead of the course and its supporting area (grandstands, scoreboard, lighting, tramway, etc. which raised the cost to USD700,000). A letter of protest was sent from the 1960 Organizing Committee to the International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation (FIBT) in late 1957 that was published in the February 1958 Olympic Review. This issue would lead to bobsleigh's exclusion from the 1960 program.
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