Editing 1924 Winter Olympics (section)

==Highlights==

=== Day 2 ===
The first [[gold medal]] to be awarded at the Olympic Winter Games was won by [[Charles Jewtraw]] of the [[United States at the 1924 Winter Olympics|United States]] in the [[Speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres|500-meter speed skate]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/news/26-january-1924-charles-jewtraw-was-the-inaugural-winner-at-the-olympic-winter-games-in-chamonix |title=26 January 1924: Charles Jewtraw was the inaugural winner at the Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix |date=26 January 2020 |website=olympic.org |access-date=16 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810062540/https://www.olympic.org/news/26-january-1924-charles-jewtraw-was-the-inaugural-winner-at-the-olympic-winter-games-in-chamonix |archive-date=10 August 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> making him the first Winter Olympic champion.<ref name="IOC Factsheet">{{cite web|url=https://stillmed.olympic.org/Documents/Reference_documents_Factsheets/The_Olympic_Winter_Games.pdf |title=IOC Factsheet, Olympic Winter Games |date=September 2014 |website=olympic.org |page=1 |access-date=17 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323221203/https://stillmed.olympic.org/Documents/Reference_documents_Factsheets/The_Olympic_Winter_Games.pdf |archive-date=23 March 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Day 4 ===
[[Sonja Henie]] of [[Norway at the 1924 Winter Olympics|Norway]], at just eleven years old, took part in the ladies' figure skating competition. Although she finished last, she became popular with fans and went on to take gold at the following three Winter Olympics.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/02/21/the-worlds-first-olympic-ice-queen-became-a-hollywood-star-and-a-hitler-admirer/ |title=The world's first Olympic ice queen became a Hollywood star – and a Hitler admirer |last=Bogage |first=Jacob |date=21 February 2018 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200324191654/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/02/21/the-worlds-first-olympic-ice-queen-became-a-hollywood-star-and-a-hitler-admirer/ |archive-date=24 March 2020 |url-status=dead |access-date=16 March 2021 }}</ref>

=== Day 6 ===
Figure skater [[Gillis Grafström]] of [[Sweden at the 1924 Winter Olympics|Sweden]] became the first athlete to successfully defend his Summer Olympic title at the Winter Olympics (having won a gold medal in [[1920 Summer Olympics|1920]]).

=== Day 8 ===
The Canadian ice hockey team ([[Toronto Granites]]) finished their qualifying round with three wins against Czechoslovakia (30–0), Sweden (22–0), and Switzerland (33–0), scoring a total of 85 goals and conceding none.<ref name="IOC Canadian Ice Hockey">{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/news/harry-watson-and-the-canadian-ice-hockey-goal-glut |title=Harry Watson and the Canadian ice hockey goal glut |website=olympic.org |access-date=17 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225080010/https://www.olympic.org/news/harry-watson-and-the-canadian-ice-hockey-goal-glut |archive-date=25 December 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Day 10 ===
Finding themselves in the same situation as Gillis Grafström, the Canadian ice hockey team is the last to defend its Summer Olympics title at the Winter Olympics successfully. Canada would dominate ice hockey in early Olympic competitions, winning six of the first seven gold medals awarded.

=== Epilogue ===
[[Taffy Abel]] (1900–1964) was an Indigenous [[Ojibwe]] ice hockey player. He was the first Native American in the [[Winter Olympic Games]] (1924 Hockey Silver Medal), 1924 Flag Bearer for the [[United States at the 1924 Winter Olympics]], first Native American in the [[National Hockey League]] (1926), [[Stanley Cup]] champion (1929) and (1934).

At the closing ceremony, a prize for a sport not part of the Olympic Winter Games was awarded for [[mountaineering|alpinism]] by [[Pierre de Coubertin]] to [[Edward Lisle Strutt|Lt Col Edward Strutt]], the deputy leader of and on behalf of the [[1922 British Mount Everest expedition|British expedition]] which had attempted to climb Mount Everest in 1922.<ref name="olympic-heroes">{{cite news |last=Online |first=Wales |date=8 February 2014 |title=Remembering Wales' winter Olympic heroes of 90 years ago |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/remembering-wales-winter-olympic-heroes-6685583 |url-status=live |work=[[Media Wales#WalesOnline|WalesOnline]] |publisher=Trinity Mirror North West & North Wales |location=UK |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220316235311/https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/remembering-wales-winter-olympic-heroes-6685583 |archive-date=16 March 2022 |access-date=24 November 2022}}</ref>

For the first time in the history of the modern Olympics, the host country (in this case, [[France at the 1924 Winter Olympics|France]]) failed to win any gold medals, finishing with three bronze medals. The same outcome occurred at the [[1928 Winter Olympics|next Winter Olympics]] in St. Moritz where [[Switzerland at the 1928 Winter Olympics|Switzerland]] won only a single bronze medal, the lowest ever output by a host nation at an Olympics. Later host nations to finish without gold medals included [[Canada at the 1976 Winter Olympics|Canada]] at the [[1976 Summer Olympics]] in Montreal, [[Yugoslavia at the 1984 Winter Olympics|Yugoslavia]] at the [[1984 Winter Olympics]] in Sarajevo, and [[Canada at the 1988 Winter Olympics|Canada]] for a second time at the [[1988 Winter Olympics]] in Calgary.

In 1925, the [[International Olympic Committee]] (IOC) decided to organize the Olympic Winter Games every four years, independent of the Olympic Games proper, and recognized the International Winter Sports Week as the first Olympic Winter Games in retrospect.

The final individual medal of Chamonix 1924 was presented in 1974. The [[Ski jumping at the 1924 Winter Olympics|ski jumping event]] was unusual because the bronze medalist was not determined for fifty years. Norway's [[Thorleif Haug]] was awarded third place at the event's conclusion, but a clerical error in calculating Haug's score was discovered in 1974 by skiing historian [[Jakob Vaage]], who further determined that [[Anders Haugen]] of the United States, who had finished fourth, had actually scored 0.095 points more than Haug. This was verified by the IOC, and in Oslo in September 1974, Haug's daughter presented the medal to the 86-year-old Haugen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archivepyc.nbcolympics.com/news/86-year-old-bricklayer-anders-haugenwon-us-only-ski-jumping-medal |title=How an 86-year-old bricklayer won the U.S.'s only ski jumping medal |date=7 February 2018 |last=Bowker |first=Matt |website=[[NBC Olympic broadcasts]] |access-date=17 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210317231112/http://archivepyc.nbcolympics.com/news/86-year-old-bricklayer-anders-haugenwon-us-only-ski-jumping-medal |archive-date=17 March 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2006, the IOC confirmed that the medals awarded to the 1924 [[curling]] and [[military patrol]] teams were official.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/sports/curling/stories/index.shtml?/story/olympics/national/2006/02/08/Sports/curling_1924medals060208.html |title=1924 curling medals count: IOC |date=8 February 2006 |work=[[CBC Sports]] |access-date=16 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060215152237/http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/sports/curling/stories/index.shtml?%2Fstory%2Folympics%2Fnational%2F2006%2F02%2F08%2FSports%2Fcurling_1924medals060208.html |archive-date=15 February 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The IOC verified that curling was officially part of the program, after the ''[[Glasgow Herald]]'' newspaper filed a claim on behalf of the families of the team.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/winter_sports/4699008.stm |title=GB curlers awarded belated gold |last=Thompson |first=Anna |date=9 February 2006|work=BBC Sport |access-date=23 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060315071439/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/winter_sports/4699008.stm |archive-date=15 March 2006 |url-status=live}}</ref>