<Table> <Tr> <Th> <Antwerp 1920 </Th> <Th> Paris 1924> </Th> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> <Antwerp 1920 </Th> <Th> Paris 1924> </Th> </Tr> <P> The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games (French: Les Iers Jeux olympiques d'hiver), 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 were held at the foot of Mont Blanc in Chamonix, and Haute - Savoie, France between January 25 and February 5, 1924 . The Games were organized by the French Olympic Committee, and were in retrospect designated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the I Olympic Winter Games . </P> <P> The tradition of holding the Winter Olympics in the same year as the Summer Olympics would continue until 1992, after which the current practice of holding a Winter Olympics in the second year after each Summer Olympics began . </P>

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