Bobsledding, figure skating, hockey: See photos of the first Winter Olympics a century ago
camille fine, usa today
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LEFT: Delegates of the competing nations gathered near Saint-Michel Church and the Hotel de Ville for the opening ceremony of the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, 25th January 1924. RIGHT: The Olympic flag flies at half staff at Olympic Village in Innsbruck, Austria on Jan. 23, 1964 following the death of Kazimerz Kay-Skrzypeski on January 22, 50-year-old British Olympic competitor in a tobogganing accident. Kay-Skrzypeski, a polish-born British citizen who fled Nazi-occupied Poland in 1924, died 24 hours after he was injured when his sled careened off the chute in a practice run.
The Olympic Winter Games are celebrating 100 years of sport on snow and ice this week.
In 1924, 258 athletes from 16 national teams descended upon the small Alpine town of Chamonix, France, the IOC stated.
“Since then, the Games have evolved to become the world’s most important winter sports event. Today, up to 3,000 athletes from over 90 National Olympic Committees take part in a growing number of disciplines, including the latest additions, such as freestyle skiing and ski mountaineering,” the IOC said.
Eleven-year-old Sonja Henie, left, and world champion skater Gilles Grafstrom, are shown on ice skates at the Olympic Games in Chamonix, France, in 1924. Henie won gold in the 1928, 1932, and 1936 Winter Olympic Games. Henie was the youngest competitor in the Chamonix games, competing in the ladies' figure skating competition, where she came 8th.
The event also boosted Chamonix’s role as a host of major winter and summer sports events — including downhill and slalom world championships, marathons, climbing and more — and put it on the map as a tourist destination for enthusiasts, according to the IOC.
Look back at photos from the first gathering, which would later be dubbed the first ever Olympic Winter Games, to see how the sporting event began and how it has adapted through the years.
Undated view of the Olympic Stadium at Chamonix, France, where the Winter Olympics were held in 1924.
The British four-man bobsleigh team in action at the Winter Olympics at Chamonix, February 1924. The team, Ralph Broome, Thomas Arnold, Alexander Richardson and Rodney Soher, took silver in the event.
The British Curling team during the Winter Olympics at Chamonix, France on Jan. 28, 1924.
French figure skater Andree Joly (later known as Andree Brunet, 1901-1993) and American figure skater Beatrix Loughran (1900-1975) hold hands as they maintain a pose during a practice session at the Stade Olympique de Chamonix during the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, 16th January 1924.
National teams from Canada and the USA in action during an ice hockey match at the Winter Olympic Games at Chamonix in 1924.
Bringing down the injured following a bobsleigh crash at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, February 1924.
American speed skater Charles Jewtraw (1900-1996) competing in the men's 500 metres speed skating event of the 1924 Winter Olympics, at the Stade Olympique de Chamonix in Chamonix, France, 26th January 1924. Jewtraw won gold, becoming the first ever Winter Olympics gold medallist as these were the inaugural Winter Olympics. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
The Canadian ice hockey team after their victory (winning the final 6-1) over the United States in the final of the men's ice hockey event of the 1924 Winter Olympics, at the Stade Olympique de Chamonix in Chamonix, France, February 3, 1924. Canada was represented by amateur ice hockey team Toronto Granites at the Games.
The competitors being taken to the starting point of the bobsleigh event of the 1924 Winter Olympics, at the Piste de Bobsleigh des Pellerins, a bobsleigh track in Chamonix, France, 2nd February 1924. The track was constructed for the 1924 Games.
Figure skaters at the 1924 winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, 30th January 1924. Left to right: Herma Planck-Szabo of Hungary, Ethel Muckelt of Britain and Beatrix Loughran of the U.S.A. Planck-Szabo won gold, with Loughran and Muckelt taking silver and bronze respectively.
In this Jan. 25, 1924 file photo, Clarence John 'Taffy' Abel, Team USA's first ever Olympic Native American ice hockey player, became the first Olympic Winter Games flagbearer at Chamonix 1924.
A group of American speed skaters practicing for the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France in January 1924.
English speed skaters training in Chamonix for the Winter Olympic Games, 16th January 1924. From left to right, B. H. Sutton, L. H. Cambridgeshire and A. E. Tibbet.
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