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I Olympic Winter Games
Poster for the 1924 Winter Olympic Games
Host city
Chamonix, France
Nations
16
Athletes
258[1]
Events
16 in 6 sports (9 disciplines)
Opening
25 January 1924
Closing
5 February 1924
Opened by
Gaston Vidal
Stadium
Stade Olympique de Chamonix
Winter
St Moritz 1928 →
Summer
← Antwerp 1920
Paris 1924 →
The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games (French: Iers Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Chamonix 1924 (Arpitan: Chamôni 1924), were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. Originally held in association with the 1924 Summer Olympics, the sports competitions were held at the foot of Mont Blanc in Chamonix, and Haute-Savoie, France between 25 January and 5 February 1924.[2] The Games were organized by the French Olympic Committee, and were originally reckoned as the "International Winter Sports Week." With the success of the event, it was retroactively designated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as "the first Olympic Winter Games".[3][4]
The tradition of holding the Winter Olympics in the same year as the Summer Olympics would continue until 1992, after which the current practice of holding a Winter Olympics in the second year after each Summer Olympics began.
Although figure skating had been an Olympic event in both London and Antwerp, and ice hockey had been an event in Antwerp, the winter sports had always been limited by the season. In 1921, at the convention of the IOC in Lausanne, there was a call for equality for winter sports, and after much discussion it was decided to organize an "international week of winter sport" in 1924 in Chamonix.
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^Elman, Leslie G. (4 February 2014). "10 historic Winter Olympic wonderlands". CNN. Archived from the original on 5 March 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
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