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Winter Olympic Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4523 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. |
| Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the hosts of the previous games, stepped in to organize the Games again, but the Games were cancelled in their entirety in November of 1939 because Germany had invaded Poland two months before. |
| Winter pentathlon, a variant to the modern pentathlon, was included as a demonstration event in 1948. |
| Olympic Games (921 words) |
| A special edition for winter sports, the Winter Olympic Games, started in 1924; since 1994 these are no longer held in the same year as the Games of the Olympiad. |
| Another possible source of the Games is the legend of Oenomaus, who challenged his daughter's suitors to a chariot race and killed the losers. |
| The ancient Olympic Games were abandoned in AD 394 by the Roman emperor Theodosius I, who considered the Games to be a savage celebration. |
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