In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

In February 2002, the International Olympic Committee retroactively decided that the curling competition from the 1924 Winter Olympics ( originally called Semaine des Sports d ' Hiver, or International Winter Sports Week ) would be considered official Olympic events and no longer be considered demonstration events.

Thus, the first Olympic medals in curling, which at the time was played outside, were awarded for the 1924 Winter Games, with the gold medal won by Great Britain and Ireland, two silver medals by Sweden, and the bronze by France.

Men's field hockey has been played at each summer Olympic Games since 1908 ( except 1912 and 1924 ), while women's field hockey has been played at the Summer Olympic Games since 1980.

The first Summer Olympics organized by the International Olympic Committee were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896 ; the first Winter Olympics were in Chamonix, France, in 1924.

* 1924 – The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, France ( in the French Alps ), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.

Peter signed his consent for 19-year old John " Weissmuller "' s passport application in 1924, preceding Johnny's Olympic competition in France.

In the Olympic Games held in Paris in 1924 a team composed by Juan Miles, Enrique Padilla, Juan Nelson, Arturo Kenny, G. Brooke Naylor and A. Peña obtained the gold medal ; this also occurred in Berlín 1936 with players Manuel Andrada, Andrés Gazzotti, Roberto Cavanagh, Luis Duggan, Juan Nelson, Diego Cavanagh and Enrique Alberdi.

On 19 June, Nurmi tried out the 1924 Olympic schedule by running the 1, 500 m and the 5, 000 m inside an hour, setting new world records for both distances.

Perhaps the ultimate recognition of the respectability of savate came in 1924 when it was included as a demonstration sport in the Olympic Games in Paris.

However, World War I put an end to the plans of Olympic competition, and it was not until the winter sports week in Chamonix in 1924 — retroactively awarded Olympic status — that ice speed skating reached the Olympic programme.

The history of Olympic volleyball traces back to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, where volleyball was played as part of an American sports demonstration event.

At the next Olympic Games, in Paris, France, in 1924, the ' two hands ' press and the ' two hands ' snatch were added to the programme, making a total of five lifts.

Men's four man bobsleigh appeared in the first ever Winter Olympic Games in 1924, and men's two man bobsleigh event was added in 1932.

Ski jumping has been part of the Olympic Winter Games since the first Games in Chamonix Mont-Blanc in 1924.

Military patrol had been a demonstration sport at the 1924, 1928, and 1936 Winter Olympic Games.

The Nordic Games were last held in 1926, after which the 1924 Winter Sports Week in Chamonix was declared the first Olympic Winter Games.

The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France.

Originally called Semaine Internationale des Sports d ' Hiver (" International Winter Sports Week ") and held in association with the 1924 Summer Olympics, the sports competitions held at the foot of Mont Blanc in Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France between January 25 and February 5, 1924, organized by the French Olympic Committee, were in retrospect designated by the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) as the I Olympic Winter Games.

At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Yeats ' painting The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the arts and culture segment of the Games.

Finland won the remaining four gold medals at the 1924 Games, with Clas Thunberg winning 1, 500 metres, 5, 000 metres, and allround.

That same year, tennis withdrew from the Olympics after the 1924 Games but returned 60 years later as a 21-and-under demonstration event in 1984.

The Vélodrome de Vincennes, used for the 1896 ( and 1924 ) Games was 500m per lap, while Antwerp's Vélodrome d ' Anvers Zuremborg, used in 1920, and Helsinki Velodrome, used in 1952, were both 400m.

Formal international competition in deaf sport began with the 1924 Paris Silent Games, organized by the Comité International des Sports des Sourds, CISS ( The International Committee of Sports for the Deaf ).

The Paris Games in 1924 introduced a format very similar to the one of today: with day 1 dressage, day 2 the endurance test, and day 3 the jumping test.

The preceding 1924 Games were retroactively renamed the inaugural Winter Olympics, though they had been in fact part of the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Athletes from 25 nations competed at these Games, up from 16 in 1924.

* National Games of India, started in 1924 as " Indian Olympics Games.

#** Prince Louis Napoléon Murat ( Paris, December 22, 1851-Paris, September 22, 1912 ), married in Odessa, 23 November, 1873 Eudoxia Mikhailovna Somova ( Kharkov, February 17, 1850-Nice, May 6, 1924 ), related to Orest Somov, and had issue now extinct in male line ( great-grandfather of actor René Auberjonois )

Beaux was crippled after breaking her hip while walking in Paris in 1924.

For seven years he also published the Dada periodical 391 in Barcelona, New York City, Zurich, and Paris from 1917 through 1924.

By 1924 in Paris, Dada was melding into surrealism, and artists had gone on to other ideas and movements, including surrealism, social realism and other forms of modernism.

FIDE was founded in Paris, France on July 20, 1924.

The Fédération Internationale des Échecs ( FIDE, or World Chess Federation ) was formed in Paris in 1924, but at that time did not formulate criteria on who should earn the title.

Paris Junior College was established in 1924.

Coubertin created the modern pentathlon for the 1912 Olympics, and subsequently stepped down from his IOC presidency after the 1924 Olympics in Paris, which proved much more successful than the first attempt in that city in 1900.

In 1924, Miró and Masson applied Surrealism to painting, explicitly leading to the La Peinture Surrealiste exhibition of 1925, held at Gallerie Pierre in Paris, and displaying works by Masson, Man Ray, Paul Klee, Miró, and others.

The treaty came into force on 6 August 1924 when the instruments of ratification had been officially deposited in Paris.

* May 4 – The 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies are held in Paris, France.

London, which had previously hosted the 1908 Summer Olympics, became the second city to host the Olympics twice ; Paris hosted the event in 1900 and 1924.

In January 1924, she visited Paris with her recently widowed cousin Corinne Mustin, before sailing to the Far East aboard a troop carrier,.

* Recherches sur la théorie des quanta ( Researches on the quantum theory ), Thesis, Paris, 1924, Ann.

At the Paris Motor Show in October 1924, Citroën introduced the Citroën B10, the first all-steel body in Europe.

The International Silent Games, first held in Paris in 1924, were the first Games for deaf athletes.

Spock studied literature and history at Yale, and also was active in athletics, becoming a part of the Olympic rowing crew ( Men's Eights ) that won a gold medal at the 1924 games in Paris.

After the war, Chevalier went back to Paris and created several songs still known today, such as " Valentine " ( 1924 ).