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1928 Winter Olympic Games - definition of 1928 Winter Olympic Games in Encyclopedia (168 words) |
 | The II Olympic Winter Games were held in 1928 in Saint Moritz, Switzerland. |
| The 1928 Games were the first true Winter Olympics, held on its own, and not in conjunction with a Summer Olympics. |
| All preceding Winter Events of the Olympic Games were the winter sports part of the schedule of the Summer Games, and not as a separate Winter Games. |
| Winter Olympic Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (5575 words) |
| The 1940 Winter Olympics had originally been awarded to Japan, and were supposed to be held in Sapporo, but Japan had to give the Games back in 1938, because of the Japanese invasion of China in the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). |
| In 1952, the Winter Games came to Norway, considered to be the birthplace of modern skiing. |
| Winter pentathlon, a variant to the modern pentathlon, was included as a demonstration event in 1948. |
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