He is the French Minister of Education, and the first Winter Olympics was held in Chamonix, France from October 25th to February 4th. According to the tradition of the Olympic Games, 16 teams entered the opening ceremony in French, with Austria leading and France as the host. When the athletes take the oath, each team sends a representative to repeat the oath.

The First Winter Olympic Games

Norway, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, the United States, Canada, France, Britain, Italy, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Poland participated in the competition, with a total of 258 athletes, including 0/3 female athletes.

This is actually an ice and snow competition in Europe and America. These events include skiing, skating, ice hockey and bobsleigh. A week before the opening ceremony, the local wind and rain continued in Chamonix, and the skating rink turned into a pool, which almost postponed the game. But a sudden freeze made the meeting go smoothly.

The first Winter Olympics was held in Chamonix. At the Paris meeting of 1922, the IOC decided to hold the eighth Olympic Sports Week at the Summer Olympic Games of 1924 as a performance of the ice and snow project on the eve of the Olympic Games. The host country of the 8th Olympic Games is France. Therefore, the International Olympic Committee also entrusted France to host this sports week, and the venue was set in Chamonix.