Winter+Olympics


 * Winter Olympics **
 * This the Winter Olympic games. It started in 1924 till now. It has been in United states, France, Japan, Canada, Italy, Germany, Russia, Norway, Austria, Switzerland and in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The people that were involved, was the Olympic committee and all the countries that were involved in the summer olympic games. The winter olympics games were caused by the organizers of the modern Olympics, which began in 1896, wanted to have winter games as well. The trouble was that they couldn't find a venue that would support the kinds of sports that they wanted. Also, the leaders of the countries who had gathered for the 1896 Olympics couldn't agree on how the games would be organized. Norway, for instance, wasn't a part of the 1896 Olympic Games but certainly wanted to be a part of any Winter Olympics. The Norwegians, in particular, wanted to make sure that the Olympics were contested in a spirit of amateurism and purity of sport, far from the money-driven spectacle that today's Olympics have become and partly what the "Summer" Olympics already were by that time. During the Sports Week, leading officials of the attending nations got together and formed an organization to represent skiing interests, the Federation Internationale de Ski (FIS). The very next year, the FIS voted to recognize the 1924 International Winter Sports Week as an "official" Olympics. Retroactively, the medals handed out at Chamonix in 1924 were the first-ever Winter Olympics medals. The things that happened was that all the countries to participate in the winter olympics and that made all the olympians have a chance to be apart of some olympics. The effects were that everybody that could not be involved in the summer olympics and the people that were good at winter sports get a second chance. [[image:https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/AMnUCQF57tzY6xNE_d0DOh8I9cvoAT0N3OcldWGH4x35nd_JuSQ7qo_oDfslJn2ZMrHYtfEl02aZW_pKyP--N9f01b8MWd05LHBAba8MFRTs8EdoJ0y4vxkpCS2qzMGbOA width="270px;" height="187px;"]]**
 * By Adam Mercuri **