The 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France were not officially the Olympics — not until several years after the fact. At the time, IOC president Pierre de Coubertin needed to assuage Scandinavian countries that the new winter games wouldn’t diminish the profile of the Nordic Games. SPOILER: They absolutely did; the last Nordic Games were held in 1926.
The first Winter Olympics featured the most cold-blooded hockey ass-kicking of all time
Also a dishonest IOC president, imagine that.
That set the stage for a new tradition: Canada dominating the rest of the world in hockey. Like, if you think Canada is good at hockey now, you should see how much better they were than the rest of the world a hundred years ago. Click the video above to learn the true story of the World War I flying ace named Moose who still holds most of the Olympic hockey scoring records.
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