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Winter Olympic Games 3.1 WORLD

Difficulty Level: N3 Hard
This 3rd Difficult level Quiz pushes the limits of your Olympic culture. Designed for well-researched sports minds and snow sports enthusiasts, these ten pointed questions require a good memory and an eye for historical detail. Will you be up to the podium? Up to you !
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At the first Games in Chamonix in 1924, which American athlete made history by becoming the very first official Olympic champion of the Winter Games?

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THE CORRECT ANSWER: Charles Jewtraw

On January 26, 1924, on the Chamonix ice oval, the American Charles Jewtraw entered the legend of world sport forever by becoming the very first Olympic champion in the history of the Olympic Winter Games.A specialist in speed skating, he won the main event of the 500 meters by completing his lap in exactly 44 seconds, beating to everyone's surprise the big Scandinavian favorites, in particular the formidable Finnish and Norwegian skaters. Coming from a modest background in Lake Placid, his historic victory gave the United States its first winter gold medal.Although he retired from sports immediately after these Games to devote himself to his professional career, the name of Charles Jewtraw remains engraved at the top of the Olympics, symbolizing the chronological starting point of a formidable human and sporting adventure which has lasted for more than a century.