{"id":2081,"date":"2026-01-25T00:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T05:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:47:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:47:26","slug":"winter-olympics-were-held-for-the-first-time-in-1924-in-chamonix-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2081","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics Were Held for the First Time in 1924 in Chamonix, France"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15611\" style=\"width: 208px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15611\" class=\"wp-image-15611 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Winter-Olympics-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure Skating at First Winter Olympics<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Winter Olympics were held for the first time in 1924 in Chamonix, France<\/strong>. Approximately 258 athletes from sixteen nations competed in nine events. The United States sent 24 athletes and came home with four medals. Norway and Finland by far brought home the most medals. The events concluded on February 4, 1924. Children could hold their own winter events \u2013 sledding, snowball throwing at targets, biggest snowman competition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter Olympics were held for the first time in 1924 in Chamonix, France. Approximately 258 athletes from sixteen nations competed in nine events. The United States sent 24 athletes and came home with four medals. Norway and Finland by far brought home the most medals. The events concluded on February 4, 1924. Children could hold <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2081' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5145,5143,5144,408,5141,5142],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5145","tag-chamonix","tag-february-4","tag-france","tag-january-25","tag-winter-olympics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29944,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/29944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}