Nikita Filippov won silver as neutral in sport’s debut Switzerland’s Marianne Fatton wins women’s sprint Nikita Filippov won silver as neutral in sport’s debut Switzerland’s Marianne Fatton wins women’s sprint We can partly thank Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for popularising the Winter Olympics’ newest sport, which made its debut amid an unrelenting snowstorm, a touch of mayhem, and no little controversy in Bormio. In 1894, the year after he had killed off Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls,