| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Larry R. Gerlach, editor. The Winter Olympics: From Chamonix to Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. 2004. Pp. vi, 330. $32.50.
The summer games began in 1896, the winter games in 1924, with the reluctant assent of the Scandinavian members of the International Olympic Committee. Swedish and Norwegian sports administrators did not welcome the thought of competition with their own Nordic Games. This winter-sport festival, which began in 1901 and was repeated in 1909, 1913, 1917, 1922, and 1926, was a celebration of Scandinavian cultural nationalism. The compensation for the sacrifice of the Nordic Games was Scandinavian domination of most of the events at Chamonix and at many subsequent Winter Olympics.	1
Originally considered an experiment, the "provisional" 1924 wintersport festival was subsequently reclassified as the first Winter Olympic Games. The winter games have never been as popular with sports fans as the summer games, which have always been much larger affairs with many more sports, and the winter games have come in a very distant second in drawing the attention of sports historians. The contributors to Larry R. Gerlach's collection ski, metaphorically, across a nearly untraversed field. (At least most of them do. David Young's essay on the origins of the Olympics is a quick run across well-mapped terrain.) Brief discussions of the winter games have been included in most comprehensive Olympic histories and in the Historical Dictionary of the Modern Olympic Movement, edited by John E. Findling and Kimberly D. Pelle (1996). For specific winter Olympics, official reports have been published. Recent reports have been replete with reams of quantified data and galleries of lavish photographs. I am unaware, however, of a general winter-games history published in any Western European language.	. . .

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