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What do you mean by Winter Olympics? How are they different than the common Olympics?

Dev Kumar
Updated on 29-Apr-2022 05:47:29

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Winter Olympics as the name suggests is the global sporting event where all the listed sports disciplines are played on snow and ice, unlike the summer Olympic Games which takes place in pleasant weather. The first ever Winter Olympics took place in 1924 in Chamonix, a small resort town in the Alpine region of south-eastern France.The games were held regularly with the Summer Olympics except for the brief interruption from 1940 to 1944 caused by the World War II. Thereafter, it continued to be held in the same four yearly sequences as the Summer Olympics till 1992 after which it ... Read More

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