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When the modern Olympic Games {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (start) in 1896 in Athens, Greece, there was no such thing as the Winter Olympics. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(player) completed only in the Summer Games. However, there were the Nordic Games. There was a(n) {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(compete) of winter sports that took place every few years starting in 1901. But the Nordic Games were only to athletes {#blank#}4{#/blank#}Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
The winter sports were popular, so in 1924 an International Winter Sports Week {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (hold) in Chamonix, France. About 250 athletes from 16 countries competed in nine sports and there were 11 female athletes, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} competed in figure skating.
Still, the Winter Olympics were under way, adding more sports to the games and {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (especial) more sports for women. Women got the chance {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(take) part in skiing, ice hockey(冰球){#blank#}9{#/blank#} other sports. Now the Games have such {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(interest) events as snowboarding and skeleton(俯式冰橇).