TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 The Winter Games Chapter 2 Skating Chapter 3 Snowboarding and Skiing Chapter 4 Biathlon Luge and Skeleton Glossary For More Information Index
CHAPTER 1 THE WINTER GAMES President Theodore Roosevelt top center in white meets members of the 1908 U S Olympic team
The official First Olympic Winter Games took place in France in 1924 But the first winter Olympic sports competition actually happened 16 years earlier during the Summer Olympics The 1908 Summer Olympics were special for two reasons First they lasted 187 days the longest Games in modern Olympic history And second they included figure skating a sport that would eventually become a popular winter event British figure skaters in the 1908 Summer Olympics
