Olympic Games of sports to encompass other winter activities. At the 1921 Olympic Congress in Lausanne, it was decided to hold a winter version of the Olympic Games. A winter sports week (it was actually 11 days) was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France, in connection with the Paris Games held three months later; this event became the first Winter Olympic Games. Although it was intended that the same country host both the Winter and Summer Games in a given year, this idea was quickly abandoned. The IOC mandated that the Winter Games be celebrated every four years on the same year
2006 Winter Paralympics male and 101 female. This is an increase from the 430 athletes participated in 2002. Despite overall increase of delegates and athletes, the following nations who participated in the 2002 Winter Paralympics did not send athletes to Turin. Mexico is the only country who had sent an athlete to these Games but not the Winter Olympic Games in 2006. These are the second Paralympic Games to be held in Italy, which hosted the first Summer Paralympics in Rome in 1960. These are the first Paralympic Games to feature a live webcast of events, hosted by ParalympicSport.TV. The Games mascot is