Winter Olympic Games
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Host City: Chamonix 1924
The "International Winter Sports Week" took place in Chamonix, France. Two years later, this is retroactively given the status of the first Olympic Winter Games. The first Winter Games was 11-day event held between Jan 25-Feb 5, 1924. 16 Nations with 292 participants competed in 18 events, including nordic skiing, speed skating, figure skating, ice hockey and bobsledding. Not surprisingly, the sports were dominated by the Scandinavians.
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Due to an error in computing the scores, American Anders Haugen was placed in fourth in ski jumping, behind Norway's Thorleif Haug. This error was discovered in 1974, and Haugen was awarded the bronze in a special ceremony.
