Before the Winter Olympics became the spectacle it is today, it began as a modest ensemble of athletes in Chamonix, France. The snowy, French commune hosted the first winter games with 16 ...

FLAT CAPS, three-piece suits and ties and athletes puffing on their pipes – welcome to the first ever Winter Olympics. It was like an episode of Miss Marple on Ice. Britain’s gold medal-winning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before multiple cameras filmed skiers flying through the sky at enormous heights and snowboarders flipping in the air, Nordic ...

As the athletes paraded through the streets of the French Alpine town of Chamonix in January 1924, few would have imagined this would be the start of the world's biggest winter sports event. There ...

The Olympic Winter Games are celebrating 100 years of sport on snow and ice this week. Thursday will mark a “revolutionary” century of “mountain sports driven by technological leaps and social ...

Ninety years ago, on January 25, 1924, the first Winter Olympic Games opened in Chamonix, France. Initially known as Semaine des Sports d'Hiver (International Winter Sports Week), the games were ...

4 February 1924: Some 250 athletes representing 16 countries attend the first Winter Games taking place in Chamonix, France Chamonix, Sunday At the Olympic Winter Games the Norwegian ski team is ...

The 1924 Winter Olympics were preceded by 30 years of hand-wringing and debate. But the Games, held in the picturesque spa town of Chamonix, France, were a resounding success and paved the way for ...

An intrepid quartet of Scottish curlers wrote their names into British Olympic history in late January 1924, although they had no idea at the time. In fact, it would take 82 years and some equally ...

It led the online sale of a collection of Olympic medals and Torches organised by RR Auction that closed last night. A total of 16 countries competed in 16 competitions, including Nordic skiing and ...