Intercalated Games

The Intercalated Olympic Games were to be a series of International Olympic Games half-way between what we now call Games of the olympiad. The series of Intercalated Games was to always be held in Athens.

Wintersports

Since there were no wintersports at the First Intercalated games, the idea has risen that this was because the IOC had made such an explicit requirement. In reality, though the IOC had intended some wintersports to be Olympic, before London 1908 none of the games included any wintersports, and Athens 1906 was no exception.

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There is however a different connection between Intercalated Games and wintersports. For 1994 the idea of intermediate games was reintroduced when the cycle for the Winter Olympic Games was shifted two years, resulting in Olympics every two years, with alternating Summer and Winter Olympics.

Related Topics:
1994 - Winter Olympic Games

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