Winter Sports
Since there were no winter sports at the First Intercalated games, the idea has arisen that this was because the IOC had made such an explicit requirement. In reality, though the IOC had intended some winter sports to be Olympic, before London 1908 none of the games included any winter sports, and Athens 1906 was no exception.
It is worth noting, however, that one of the ideas of the Intercalated Games - namely that the games took place two years either side of Summer Olympics - has been revived for the Winter Olympic Games since 1994.
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