The history of Winter Olympics（通訊員稿）
[ 2006-12-06 19:05 ]
由于花樣滑冰運動在英國的盛行，1908年倫敦奧運會首次將其列入比賽項目。1920年安特衛(wèi)普奧運會除花樣滑冰外，還增加了冰球賽，這兩個項目的比賽吸引了成千上萬的冰上運動愛好者，并促使單獨舉辦冬奧會的問題被提上了1921年國際業(yè)余田徑聯(lián)合會會議議程。1922年國際奧委會巴黎會議上，決定在1924年夏季奧運會前舉辦這類比賽，但避開了“奧運會”字眼，稱為“第八屆奧林匹亞德體育周”。第八屆奧運會東道主是法國，因此，國際奧委會也將這個體育周委托法國承辦，會址定在夏蒙尼。
 Because of its popularity in England, figure skating was on the program
for the 1908 Olympic Games in London. When Antwerp, Belgium, hosted the 1920
Olympics after World War II, there was competition in both ice hockey and figure
skating.
Those sports could, of course, be conducted in rinks during the Summer Games.
But other winter sports that were becoming popular in Northern Europe and the
Alpine regions, such as skiing and bobsledding, obviously had to stay outdoors.
After 1920, national governing bodies for such sports in several countries began
talking about the possibility of a separate Winter Olympics.
Prompted by a growing group of snow-sport enthusiasts, the first Olympic
Winter Games-initially called International Sports Week-were held at a small
Alpine resort in
Chamonix ,
France
, in 1924.
Figure skating, which first debuted at the Olympic Games in 1908 in
London
, can be performed on
an indoor rink during summer, but other winter sports, such as bobsledding and
skiing, required outdoor venues. The 1924 event attracted more than 250 athletes
from 16 countries, spurring the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to agree
to stage Olympic Winter Games separately from summer competitions.
In 2006, the Olympic Winter Games included curling, bobsled, figure skating,
ice hockey, luge, skeleton, speedskating, skiing and snowboarding. 2,500
world-class athletes-a word derived from the Greek word for "prize-seekers"
competed amid snow and ice in front of an estimated 1.5 million
spectators. It was the second time Italy hosted the Olympic
Winter Games, as it hosted the VII Olympic Winter Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo in
1956, and the third time overall, as Italy also staged the Games of the XVII
Olympiad in Rome in 1960. Most recently, the 2002 Olympic Winter Games were held
in Salt Lake City ,
Utah .
(南開大學通訊員王樂迪 孫偉投稿 中國日報網(wǎng)站 王星編輯）
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