The Games opened on Jan. 25, with a parade of competing nations. The next day, U.S. skater Charles Jewtraw claimed the first ...

This tiny country has more or less dominated the Winter Olympics since the first winter games in Chamonix, France in 1924. How do they do It? "It's a good question," said Birk Ruud, a member of ...

Edgar Grospiron, the moguls Olympic champion in Albertville in 1992, is bidding to become president of the organising ...

The 2022 Winter Olympics were held February 4-20, 2022, in Beijing, China. January 25, 1924-February 5, 1924 – The first Winter Olympics are held in Chamonix, France. The Chamonix games were ...

European Domination Since the inception of the winter games in 1924 no American had ever won a gold medal in cross country skiing prior to 2018.

French biathlon star Martin Fourcade has withdrawn his candidacy to be president of the organising committee of the 2030 ...

the inaugural 1924 edition in Chamonix, 1968 in Grenoble and 1992 in Albertville. The 55-year-old Grospiron is the former head of France’s failed bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics. He resigned ...

Theresa Weld Blanchard wins her sixth and final U.S. figure skating championship. Sherwin Badger captures his fifth straight and final men’s title. 1928 — Sonja Henie, ...

Seen as a frontrunner to be named president of the organizing committee, the six-time Olympic champion wrote an email to the ...

The 2030 Winter Games already is on the tightest time scale of any modern Olympics, with just 5 1/2 ... the inaugural 1924 edition in Chamonix, 1968 in Grenoble and 1992 in Albertville.