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

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 ...

Here’s some background information about the Winter Olympics, which are held every four years. The 2026 Winter Olympics are scheduled to be held February 6-22, 2026, in Milan-Cortina, Italy. The 2022 ...

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.

Olympic Games took place a century ago at Chamonix in France. Held between January 25 and February 5, 1924, the tournament is memorable for the first gold medal ever won by an athlete at a Winter ...

French biathlon star Martin Fourcade has withdrawn his candidacy to be president of the organising committee of the 2030 Winter Olympics.

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.

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