Did the Ancient Greeks have winter sports?  When was the first Winter Olympics?  What were the events?
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Not the Ancient Greeks, if this Wikipedia entry is correct:\n\nThe 1928 Games were the first true Winter Olympics, held on its own, and not in conjunction with a Summer Olympics. The preceding 1924 Winter Olympics were retroactively renamed into Winter Olympics. They were actually part of the 1924 Summer Olympics. All preceding Winter Events of the Olympic Games were the winter sports part of the schedule of the Summer Games, and not as a separate Winter Games. These games also replaced the now redundant Nordic Games, that were held quadrennially since early in the century.\nContents
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INNSBRUCK  1976\n\nXII Olympic Winter Games\n\nDenver was supposed to host them, but the people of Denver didn't want to use public funds, so Innsbruck stepped in and the 1976 Olympics were held in Innsbruck.
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The history of Greece began with the Stone Age hunters and early farmers. This time period was followed by the civilizations of the Minoan and Mycenaean kings. Next came the Dark Ages which was a time period characterized by many wars and invasions. Greece was then invaded by the Dorians in approximately 1100 BC. Finally, in the period from 500-336 BC Greece was divided into small city states. A city-state consisted of a city and its surrounding countryside. \n\n\nChronology\n\n6000 - 2900 BC Neolithic Period \n2900-2000 BC Early Bronze Age \n2000-1400 BC Minoan Age \n1600-1100 BC Mycenaean Age \n1100-750 BC The Dark Ages \n750-500 BC Archaic Period \n500-336 BC Classical Period \n336-146 BC Hellenistic Period \n\n\nhttp://www.cedarville.edu/academics/education/resource/schools/chca/othergrades/greecetd/greece1.htm\n--------------\n3000 BC In early Bronze Age settlers from Asia Minor came to the island and fused with earlier Neolithic occupants to develop what is known as the Early Cycladic culture. They worked in marble and stone and traded over sea.\n\n1600 BC During the Late Bronze Age Siphnos was under the cultural andcommercial hegemony of the Minoans of Crete. It is believed that theCretans founded the town named Minoa but remains are as yet undiscovered.\n\nIn 1400 BC the explosion of Santorini destroyed the major centers of Minoan civilization the Mycenaeans became the dominant power in the area and used the islands as relay staions to the near east, replacing many of the indigenous people with Greeks.\n\nAt about 1100 BC during the dark days of the Dorian Invasion, Sifnos was colonized by Ionians from Attika, led by their chieftan Alkenor who became the islands first sovereign.\n\nIn the 8th century BC Greeks began to think of themselves as an ethnic unity. City States began to grow up on the mainland and the islands. Sifnos was under the domination of neighboring Milos. It was then that Gold was discovered on the island and the inhabitants became quite rich, paving their capital in Parian Marble and building a treasury in Delphi. It was said that every year the Sifniots would present a solid golden egg to the God Apollo. One year out of guilt they gave him an egg that was merely plated in Gold. The angry God destroyed their mines. It was also during this period that Samian pirates plundered the island. With the riches they took, they aquired the island of Hydra for their home. When the mines of Sifnos brought forth no more precious metal the island was reduced to poverty.\n\nIn the fifth century BC Sifnos was part of the Greek alliance of City states that defeated the Persians at Marathon, Salamis and Platea. Sifnos became a part of the Delian League and came under the authority of Athens. During the Peleponisian wars, Sifnos managed to stay out of the conflict. In 338 it fell under the influence of Phillip of Macedonia. When Persians captured it in 332 Alexander the Great sent a squadron to expell them. When Alexander died and the empire was devided among his generals, Sifnos fell under the influence of the Ptolemies of Egypt until 146bc when they fell to the Romans.\n\nhttp://www.greektravel.com/sifnos/history.htm
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Dont understand exactly what kind of events you mean but here are some\nAlexander the Great's Hellenic empire\nThe Olympic Games\nThe Persian Wars\nThe Trojan War\nThe Birth of Democracy and of many other philosophies and sciences
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There are four years between each Winter Olympics. And then 4 years between each Summer Olympics.  But only 2 years between the Winter and Summer.   So the next Olympics would be 2008, but that will be the Summer Olympics (the summer olympics will then be held in 2012, 2016, 2020, and so on). The next Winter Olympics will be held in 2010, then 2014 and so on.  \n\nThere was a time when the Summer and Winter were always held in the same year.  They switched it not to long ago ( I believe in the 90s sometime)
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The Greeks inventors of the ancient olympiads used it as a distinct measurement of time, similiar to the way the romans would use their ruler as a measurement of time "in the third year this emperor etc."  The Greeks did not have winter olympics they are a modern day invention and they were held in the same year as the summer games until 1994 when the summer games would stay in years divisable by four (2000, 2004 etc) and winter would go to even non-divisable by four (2006, 2010).
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Every 4 yrs between winter to winter and summer to summer.  Between '92 and '94 the IOC moved the winter Olympics so the Olympics would be 2 yrs apart between the summer and winter games.
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The ancient Olympic Games began in the year 776 BC, when Koroibos, a cook from the nearby city of Elis, won the stadion race, a foot race 600 feet long. The stadion track at Olympia is shown here. According to some literary traditions, this was the only athletic event of the games for the first 13 Olympic festivals or until 724 BC. From 776 BC, the Games were held in Olympia every four years for almost 12 centuries.\n\nContrary evidence, both literary and archaeological, suggests that the games may have existed at Olympia much earlier than this date, perhaps as early as the 10th or 9th century BC. \n\n Although the ancient Games were staged in Olympia, Greece, from 776 BC through 393 AD, it took 1503 years for the Olympics to return. The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. The man responsible for its rebirth was a Frenchman named Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who presented the idea in 1894. His original thought was to unveil the modern Games in 1900 in his native Paris, but delegates from 34 countries were so enthralled with the concept that they convinced him to move the Games up to 1896 and have Athens serve as the first host.
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The Olympic Games(Olympics) is an sport event taking place every four years. Held in ancient Greece, and only taken part by male contenders, they were revived by the French Pierre  de Coubertin in the late 19th century.\nThe Summer Olympics (Games of the Olympiad) have been held every fourth year (starting in 1896), with the exception of the years during the World Wars.\nThe Olympic Winter Games was first held in 1924. The first winter Olympics competitions were held as a sports festival, but were declared to be official Games by the International Olympic Committee in 1925. \nLearn more in the sites bellow\n\nPersian Wars\nThe Persian Wars were a series of conflicts between the Greek world and the Persian Empire that started about 500 BC and lasted until 448 BC. \nYou will find imfos in "Creco-persian wars" article in wikipedia \nSee also the article "Greece" and follow the links
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gymnastics wasnt in the first olympics if i remember right it first appeared in 1932
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There are no summer olympics in 2006, in 2008 they are in Beijing, China. The winter olympics are in 2006.
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1924 , Chamonix\nhe first Winter Olympic Games were actually called “The International Winter Sports Week” and went on for 11 days in the French Alps, 60 miles northeast of Grenoble.\n\nAs expected, the Scandinavians dominated the 16–nation field. Norway and Finland won 27 of the 43 medals available, including all four Nordic events and four of the five speed skating races. Speed skater Clas Thunberg of Finland and Norwegian Nordic skier and jumper Thorleif Haug each won three gold medals.\n\nAmerican speed skater Charles Jewtraw won the first event of the Games with an upset in the 500 meters. But the most remarkable U.S. medal was the bronze won by Anders Haugen in the ski jump. Due to a scoring error at the time he didn't receive it until 1974 – when he was 83 years old.\n\nIn its first four hockey games, Canada beat Switzerland 33–0, Czechoslovakia 30–0, Sweden 22–0 and Great Britain 19–2, before winning the tournament with a 6–1 victory over the U.S. in the final.
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Sorry, but there have been no olympic winter games ten years ago, as Olympic games always are every four years! This year, Germany won!
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I can't say that there was one moment in the whole Winter Games that I liked the most. Watching athletes' reactions as soon as they learn they've won the gold is pretty exciting. Especially seeing Shizuka Arakawa win Japan's first medal. Even Lindsey Kildow's crash inspired something. Just watching the Olympics is my favorite part.
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first olympic sport? that was the foot race. (sprinting) in athens i think
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All I know is that the Greeks started their dates from the first Olympic Games which was around 770 BC.  So using that calendar the year 1 (as we know it) would've been 770, and we are currently in 2776 (or somewhere thereabouts).  Of course there were many different calendars at use at the time from various parts of the world, and I think a few years have either been added or taken away from our calendar over the centuries.\n\nI'm sure that if you did some research into Roman, Greek and Egyptian ( I mean, they were around for at least two thousand years before Jesus) history you could find out more.
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Cross-country skiing was a major event at the first Winter Olympics, held at Chamonix, France, in 1924. Only men were eligible to participate, however, and the only events were 18km and 50km races. In 1936, a 4x10km mixed relay (2 classical and 2 freestyle legs) was added. Women finally appeared on the scene at the 1952 Winter Games in Oslo, in a 10km classical race.