What is the background of the Winter Olympics?

The Winter Olympic Games is a worldwide winter sports event sponsored by the International Olympic Committee.

Like the Olympic Games, the Winter Olympics is held every four years, in the same year as the Olympic Games. With the increasing popularity of ice and snow sports, winter ice sports attract more and more audience's interest.

In the early days, figure skating and ice hockey were held together with the Olympic Games, but the weather brought many changes to the Olympic Organizing Committee, and the ice and snow events were separated from the Olympic Games and held separately.

The holding of the first winter Olympic Games

The International Olympic Committee held the "Winter Sports Week" in Chamonix, France on 1924 to conduct pure winter sports competitions. 1925, the Prague meeting of the International Olympic Committee renamed it the "First Winter Olympic Games" and decided to hold it every four years, in the same year as the Summer Olympic Games, in the same country.

The first event decided at the Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France was the men's 500-meter speed skating. American athlete Charles Jewtraw won the gold medal in this event, which is also the first gold medal in the history of the Winter Olympics.