Nordic Games
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the sporting event. For the video game publisher and holding company formerly known as Nordic Games, see Embracer Group.
Not to be confused with Nordic Game.
The Nordic Games were the first international multi-sport event that focused primarily on winter sports, and were held at varying intervals between 1901 and 1926. It was organized by Sweden's Swedish Central Association for the Promotion of Athletics,[1] and more specifically by Viktor Balck, a member of that association and one of the five original members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was, in many ways, a precursor to the modern Winter Olympic Games,[2] whose success was a contributing factor (along with the social and economic turmoil following World War I) to the Nordic Games's discontinuation in the 1920s.[1]