Xaver Frick is a man of the first hour, one of the pioneers of Liechtenstein sporting engagement at the international and national level. Both as an active athlete and as a leading functionary, he was significantly involved in the ongoing development of sports in the country, whether in clubs or in national sports associations.

As an active athlete, Xaver Frick is still the only athlete in Liechtenstein to have participated in both the Summer and Winter Olympics: he participated in track and field at the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin and as a cross-country skier in the 1948 Winter Games in St. Moritz.
As a founding member of the National Sports Association and the first Liechtenstein National Olympic Committee (NOC), he helped lay the foundation for the sports structures as they exist today. He served in the NOC as Secretary beginning in 1935, then he served in the responsible position of President from 1963 to 1970. Xaver Frick served on the board of many sports associations, the Alpine Club, the Gymnastics Club, and the Balzers Ski Club, but first and foremost of the Gymnastics and Athletics Association, where he served as President for many years.
When he was 23, Xaver Frick quoted the following line from the Völkischer Beobachter in a letter to his parents and siblings while participating at the Summer Olympics in Berlin: "On Sunday morning, the seven men of the Olympic team of the smallest European State, the Principality of Liechtenstein, arrived at Anhalt Station. The hall was decorated with the blue-red flags of the Principality!"
This testimony expresses his deep attachment to his home country. As an active athlete and functionary, Xaver Frick was one of the first ambassadors of our country, who carried the positive image of Liechtenstein out into the world through sports.

Xaver Frick is the only
Liechtenstein athlete who
participated in both the
Summer and Winter Olympics