The , officially known as the '''II Olympic Winter Games''', were held in
1928 in
Sankt-Moritz ,
Switzerland . The 1928 Games were the first true ''
Winter Olympics '' held on its own as they were not in conjunction with a ''
Summer Olympics ''. The preceding
1924 Winter Olympics were retroactively renamed into Winter Olympics. They were actually part of the
1924 Summer Olympics . All preceding Winter Events of the Olympic Games were the
Winter Sports part of the schedule of the Summer Games, and not as a separate Winter Games. These games also replaced the now redundant
Nordic Games , that were held quadrennially since early in the century.
(''Host nation in .'')
