Winter Sports
Since there were no winter sports at the First Intercalated games, the idea has arisen that this was because the IOC had made such an explicit requirement. In reality, though the IOC had intended some winter sports to be Olympic, before London 1908 none of the games included any winter sports, and Athens 1906 was no exception.
It is worth noting, however, that one of the ideas of the Intercalated Games - namely that the games took place two years either side of Summer Olympics - has been revived for the Winter Olympic Games since 1994.
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Famous quotes containing the words winter and/or sports:
“Out alone in the winter rain,
Intent on giving and taking pain.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)