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Nordic Games were the first iteration of winter Olympic games. Viktor Gustaf Balck first organized the Nordic Games in Sweden in 1901. This worldwide mult-sport event that was appointed specifically for winter sports was thereafter held regularly until 1926. In the while, Balck was rallying to have winter sports (beginning with figure skating) contained in the Olympic sport roster. He was unsuccessful until 1908, when four figure skating events were embodied in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
When planning the next summer Olympics (to be held in 1912), an Italian count named Eugenio Brunetto dUsseaux beseeched the International Olympic Committee to maneuver a week of winter sports for part of the 1912 games. The motif was not greeted warmhearted, for a couple assorted reasons. First, the committee did not ambition to detract from the Nordic Games. Second, the committee was cared almost the lack of facilities for other winter sports.
More floor was acquired in 1916, when the idea to include a week of winter sports was repeatedly intended. The committee went as distant as to plan the week of winter sports including figure skating, speed skating, ice hockey and Nordic skiing. Unfortunately, the 1916 games in Berlin were cancelled deserving to World War I.
Figure skating and ice hockey were featured in the 1st Olympic games after the war, held in Antwerp in 1920. Shortly afterward the International Olympic Committee judged that the organizers of the next Olympics (to be held in 1924) would too host an International Winter Sports Week. The first Winter Sports Week took place in Chamonix in 1924 and actually lasted 11 days. The accident was a big success, drawing more than 200 players from 16 competing nations. In the first Winter Sports Week, women merely contended in figure skating memorabilia.
In 1925, the International Olympic Committee built a separate event designated for these types of sports. The event was cried the Olympic Winter Games [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and at the same time [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the 1924 Winter Sports Week in Chamonix was retroactively designated as the official first Winter Olympics. The second Olympic Winter Games were held in St. Moritz in February of 1928. The next Winter Olympic Games were held in North USA for the first period. The position of the event was Lake Placid, New York. The turnout by the 1932 Winter Olympics was not impressive, whatsoever, partly due to the fiscal accent of the Great Depression. 1936 was the last year in which both summer and winter Olympics were held in the same nation. Both the 1940 and the 1944 Winter Olympics were cancelled as a outcome of World War II. The 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina dAmpezzo, Italy were the first to be televised.
The next Winter Olympics Games scheduled are to take location in 2010 in Vancouver, B.C. Below is a list of scheduled medal events:
- Alpine skiing - Biathlon - Bobsled - Cross-country skiing - Curling - Figure skating - Freestyle skiing - Ice hockey - Luge - Nordic combined - Short trail speed skating - Skeleton - Ski jumping - Snowboarding - Speed skating