History: First Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix, France in 1924

History: First Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix, France in 1924
The concept of the Winter Olympic Games was first introduced in 1924. Following the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Congress decided that France, host of the 1924 Summer Games, should conduct a separate event for winter sports that same year. The French spa town of Chamonix was chosen to host what was named the “International Winter Sports Week” – the event actually lasted 11 days. The original sports were alpine and cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping, and speed skating. In 1925, the IOC officially created separate Olympic Winter Games, and the 1924 Games in Chamonix were retroactively designated as the first Winter Olympics.

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