What is the history of the Winter Olympics?

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some ice and snow sports such as skiing, bobsledding, ice skating and ice hockey were gradually popularized and developed in Europe and the United States. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) added figure skating to the program at the 4th Summer Olympics in 1908, and ice hockey was added to the program at the 7th Summer Olympics in 1920.

Before the 8th Olympic Games in 1924, Chamonix, France, held an international sports week, the competition *** set skating, skiing, ice hockey, snowmobiles, 4 big and 16 small items. Skiing, skating, ice hockey, snowmobile these four big events in the Winter Olympics nearly 100 years of history has always played the most classic and traditional role, they are like four stable cornerstone, to the Winter Olympics this building has laid the most solid foundation.

Two years later, the IOC decided at its Prague meeting to hold the Winter Olympics once every four years and officially renamed Chamonix International Sports Week the 1st Winter Olympics.

Duration

The Winter Olympics were initially scheduled to be held every 4 years, in the same year and in the same country as the Summer Olympics. Beginning with the 2nd Winter Olympics in 1928, the Winter Olympics and Summer Olympics were moved to different countries, and in 1986, the IOC decided that from 1994, the Winter Olympics and Summer Olympics would be held in intervals of two years.