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1) C. 1924 They were in Chamonix in the French Alps. Only 11 of the 258 athletes were women, who could only compete in figure skating. 2) A. 4 BriTAin won four medals at the first Games in Chamonix and four at Sochi in 2014. We’ve won 26 across 22 games. 3) True. in 2010 in Vancouver, German David Moeller chipped a tooth after a photographer asked him to bite his silver luge medal. 4) 1C, 2A, 3B in 2014 in Sochi, snowboarder Jenny Jones won Britain’s first Olympic medal on snow when she won a bronze in slopestyle.

in 1992 in Albertville, skier Annelise Coberger from new Zealand became the first Winter Olympic medallist from the southern hemisphere when she won silver in the women’s slalom.

in 2006 in Turin, U.S. speed skater Shani Davis became the first black athlete to win an individual gold at a Winter Games. 5) D. Torvill and Dean. The nottingham ice dancers were watched by 24 million people when they won gold in Sarajevo in 1994, but it was never made into a film. The story of eddie ‘ The eagle’ edwards, the plasterer from Gloucestershire who became the world’s most unlikely ski jumping star at the 1988 Calgary Games, was turned into 2016’s eddie the eagle.

Cool runnings, a 1993 comedy, was based on the Jamaican bobsleigh team’s Winter Olympics debut at the 1988 Games.

i, Tonya, released on February 16, is about U.S. skater Tonya harding, who covered up an attack by her ex-husband on rival nancy Kerrigan before the 1994 Games. 6) False. AMeriCAn eddie eagan won a gold in boxing and in the four-man bobsleigh.