First Winter Olympics

The First Winter Olympics, officially the I Olympic Winter Games (Noterelenda: Jemes Iúïnires Olimpikires Onetes) will precede the First Summer Olympics, and are being held in Aeropag, Commerce Heights. At present, forty nations are currently taking part in a total of eighty-seven events.

International medal tally

				Total
Zertunia (ZER)	1	0	1	2
Boudra-Boudra (BDB)	1	0	0	1
Antrium (ANT)	0	1	0	1
Commerce Heights (COM)	0	1	0	1
Anastasiania (ANS)	0	0	1	1

Host selection process

Both Aeropag and Bloco’yce City, Raging Penguins were chosen unanimously by the Olympic Upper Council as candidate cities for the Games out of a field of eight applicants, and Marshalliston, Oliverry and Ungava, Domnonia were also selected as candidates. Aeropag was announced as host by a representative of the Krytenian National Olympic Committee on September 23, 87 CE, having received a majority of votes.

Games broadcasts

The Games will be broadcast by media entities in a number of nations;

• The Aeropag Tribune in Commerce Heights
• Ceorana Herald / Ceorana News Wire, Ceorana
• SportsTVHeartland in Liverpool England
• Pacitalian Broadcasting Corporation, Pacitalia

The Capitalizt Olympic Committee is currently seeking arrangements with other media companies.

Highlights

Day One

• Andrew Simari of Krytenia set an Olympic record in the first competition of the event, the first heat of the men's short track 1000 metre qualifying. Simari's time of 1:28.418 lasted until the end of the qualifying; a further 15 athletes qualified for the following day's semi final. [1]
• The host nation Commerce Heights went down 3–4 to The Resurgent Dream in the opening match of the men's ice hockey tournament. [2]
• The Anastasianian delegation was delayed due to a misunderstanding with the communications committee. [3]
• Boudra-Boudra and Commerce Heights run away from the pack in the biathlon relay, finishing over three minutes ahead of the bronze medal team. Oswaldo Sdar of Boudra-Boudra beat Larry Kaplan in the finish sprint to win by four seconds [4], while Anastasiania took the bronze. [5]
• Athletes from The Resurgent Dream clinched first and fifth place in the women's figure skating short program. [6]

Day Two

• Paperwork problems caused more delayed competitions, as Chicanada's snowboard cross athletes had to race an extra qualification run [7]
• Zertunia dominated the two alpine skiing events by securing four of the six available top-three places:
  • Kenbor Tan and Canban Sanom made it a 1-2 for Zertunia in the men's slalom, but there were nine athletes within half a second of the leader. However, another run had to be completed before the medals were awarded. [8]
  • In the Super-G, the first medal event for the alpine skiers, Sanom struck gold and finished 0.09 seconds ahead of silver medallist Béroto Théalin of Antrium. Kenbor Tan takes the bronze. [9]
• The first round of women's curling qualification was completed: The team from Maineiacs, skipped by Sally Gore, recorded the largest margin of victory, beating Malabra by 9–5. [10]

First Winter Olympics

Host city: Aeropag (Commerce Heights)

Other candidates: Bloco’yce City (Raging Penguins) | Marshalliston (Oliverry) | Ungava (Domnonia)

List of participating nations (alphabetical): A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y | Z