"The Santa Cruz police were deluged one January evening in 1928 with numerous complaints about roller skating boys disturbing the peace," writes columnist Ross Eric Gibson. "Yet the cause of the disturbance was probably little more than the fact most roller skates in those days made a terrible racket.

Estonia has sent a total of 32 competitors, 16 women and 16 men, to the ongoing Milano Cortina Winter Olympics in Italy, but 100 years ago when the games were yet young, things were much more modest.

Olympians in winter sports have been displaying their athletic excellence for years.

On Feb. 11, 1928, the second Winter Olympics opened in St. Moritz, Switzerland — in whiteout conditions. Roughly 1,200 athletes and officials marched through falling snow at nearly 6,000 feet in the Swiss Alps.