Beginning in 1924, a Winter Olympics was included - to be held at a separate cold-weather sports site in the same year as the Summer Games

the first held at Chamonix, France. In 1980 about 1,600 athletes from 38 nations competed at Lake Placid, N.Y., in a program that included Alpine and Nordic skiing, biathlon, ice hockey, figure skating and speed skating, bobsled, and luge.