Nordic Games
international winter sports competition
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history of Alpine skiing
- In skiing: Alpine skiing
…Oslo (from 1892) and the Nordic Games (held quadrennially from 1901 to 1917 and 1922 to 1926) to be the only proper representation of the sport of skiing. In 1930, however, the Nordic skiing countries of Norway, Sweden, and Finland finally withdrew their resistance and allowed Alpine events to be…
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origins of Olympic Winter Games
- In Origins of the Olympic Winter Games
This competition, the Nordic Games, included only athletes from the Scandinavian countries and was held quadrenially in Sweden, beginning in 1901. Figure skating was included in the Olympics for the first time in the 1908 Summer Games in London, although the skating competition was not actually held until…
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