• 100 years of Winter Olympic history: why Chamonix is still king of the slopes

    100 years of Winter Olympic history: why Chamonix is still king of the slopes
    On the centenary of it hosting the first winter games, the French town has lost none of the allure felt by pioneering skiers, curlers and skatersOn a chilly winter’s day, exactly 100 years ago, four smartly dressed men boarded a train in Edinburgh. Willie Jackson and his son Laurence were both farmers, dapper Thomas Murray bred sheep and cattle, and portly Robin Welsh was a member of Edinburgh city council. At 54, he was a little older than his pals. They had deliberated for months about w

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