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1924 Winter Olympics The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games (french: Iers Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Chamonix 1924 ( frp, Chamôni 1924), were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France ...

in Chamonix, France, a total of three sports venues were used. The main stadium was used for all but two sports and part of a third. It was the first ski jump used for the Winter Olympics. A bobsleigh track was prepared for use.

Venues

After the Olympics

The stadium and the ski jump served as venues for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in

1937 Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Fe ...

. The ski jump was not used in FIS Ski Jumping World Cup until the 1980-81 season when it was won by Norway's Roger Ruud.FIS Ski jumping history at Chamonix since 1924.
Accessed 7 October 2010. Its last World Cup event was in 1998 and was won by Finland's Janne Ahonen. A final ski jumping event listed was a Continental Cup in February 2001, but no results were listed. The last cross-country skiing event after the 1937 championships was a Continental Cup event in 1999. This was a women's 10 km event won by Germany's Steffi Völkel and a men's 15 km event won by Spain's Jordi Ribo. As for Nordic combined, two more events have taken place since the 1937 championships though they were World Cup B events. The last Nordic combined event held in Chamonix was a World Cup B event in 2000 and was won by France's Kevin Arnould. The bobsleigh track was demolished and is now used as an

alpine skiing Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing ( cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether for ...

venue. The Olympic Stadium is still in existence in Chamonix. Chamonix was part of

Annecy Annecy ( , ; frp, Èneci or ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France. It lies on the northern tip of Lake Annecy, south of Geneva, Switzerland. Nicknamed ...

's unsuccessful bid for the

2018 Winter Olympics , nations = 93 , athletes = 2,922 (1,680 men and 1,242 women) , events = 102 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = , closing = , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Yun-a , stadium = Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium , winte ...

in July 2011. If selected, the city would have hosted alpine skiing and ice hockey events.Annecy2018.com map of the proposed venues.
Accessed 5 December 2010.

References

{{1924 Winter Olympic venues 1924 Winter Olympic venues

1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...