For the Winter Olympics 2018 in Pyeongchang - the grand cultural history of the Winter Games. It took about a quarter of a century for the Winter Games to establish themselves alongside the Olympic Summer Games. Klaus Zeyringer tells the story of the initial resistance from Scandinavians against drawing "special figures" on the ice, the political proxy battles during the Cold War, and the increasing role of the media in a lively and anecdotal manner. He places the world of winter sports, with its heroes like Toni Sailer and Rosi Mittermaier, its tragic figures like "Eddy the Eagle," its "Ice Witches" like Tonya Harding, and its "Ice Princesses" like Nancy Kerrigan, in their cultural, social, and political context. Whether athletes are excluded for wearing advertisements, or whether new techniques revolutionize a sport, one thing remains constant: that.