![]() While only one Canadian woman competed at the 1924 Games in Chamonix, 99 women vied for medals at the 2014 Games in Sochi - comprising nearly half the Canadian Olympic team.Ĭanada has won 199 medals at the Olympic Winter Games since 1924, and ranks fifth in the total number of medals won at the Games since 1924. Female participation has also increased dramatically, as more women’s events have been added to the Olympic Winter Games. Team Canada has grown as well, from 12 athletes in 1924 to 222 athletes in 2014. While the 1924 Games in Chamonix featured 258 athletes from 16 nations competing in 16 events, the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia, featured 2,781 athletes from 88 NOCs (National Olympics Committees) competing in 98 events. The Olympic Winter Games have grown significantly since 1924. For example, the Winter Games at Nagano, Japan, were held in 1998 and the Summer Games were held in 2000 in Sydney, Australia. Until 1992 the Olympic Summer Games and the Olympic Winter Games were held in the same year, but beginning in 1994 they were rescheduled so that they are held in alternate even-numbered years. The competitions were a great success and were retroactively named the first Olympic Winter Games. In 1924, a separate "International Sports Week" was held during the winter in Chamonix, France, in celebration of the Paris Olympic Games later that year. In 1921, despite the reservations of Pierre de Coubertin, the Olympic Congress voted that the IOC should arrange winter sports competitions in conjunction with the Olympic Games. The Falcons won Canada's first-ever Olympic medal in hockey (courtesy Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame & Museum). The Winnipeg Falcons hockey club, the 1920 gold medallists at the Antwerp Olympics. The Falcons’ victory is considered the first Olympic gold medal in ice hockey. The team defeated Czechoslovakia 15–0, the United States 2–0, and Sweden 12–1 in the single-knockout tournament. The ice hockey tournament was won by the Canadian team, the Winnipeg Falcons, which was made up almost solely of players of Icelandic heritage. The events were staged in April, several months before the regular (summer) events, in the Antwerp ice palace. Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, also had reservations about the inclusion of winter sports in the Olympics.įigure skating and ice hockey were both included in the 1920 Olympic Games held in Antwerp, Belgium. The Nordic Games dated back to 1901 and were held at different intervals until 1926. In 1911, an International Olympic Committee (IOC) member suggested that winter events be included in the 1912 Games to be held in Stockholm, but failed to persuade the Swedish organizing committee, who saw this as a threat to their own Nordic Games. Although it did not happen at the 1900 Games, figure skating exhibitions were held in October 1908 at the Olympic Games in London, won by Swedish skater Ulrich Salchow, originator of the jump that now bears his name. ![]() The idea of including winter sports in the Olympic Games dates back to 1900, when organizers planned to include figure skating as part of the 1900 Games in Paris. Previous Next Winter Sports at the Olympic Games ![]()
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