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Mrs Phillips was a ski jumper and she wanted to compete with other ski jumpers in the world. So she went to the Olympic Comitee and said that there should be a winter Olympics. So the comitee listened to her whole story, and thought it was a great idea, so that's how th ewinter Olympics started

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