In which year did this major international sporting event, held once every four years, and for which Cameroon competed for the first time in 2002 at Salt Lake City, begin?
1924
Cameroon at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Cameroon competed in the Winter Olympic Games for the first time (as of 2014, only time) at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States.
 The country sent only one representative.
Winter Olympic Games
The Olympic Winter Games (official name) (French: "Jeux olympiques d'hiver" ) is a major international sporting event held once every four years, for sports practised on snow and ice.
 The first Winter Olympics, the 1924 Winter Olympics, was held in Chamonix, France.
 The original five sports (broken into nine disciplines) were bobsleigh, curling, ice hockey, Nordic skiing (consisting of the disciplines military patrol, cross-country skiing, Nordic combined, and ski jumping), and skating (consisting of the disciplines figure skating and speed skating).
 The Games were held every four years from 1924 to 1936, interrupted in 1940 and 1944 by World War II, and resumed in 1948.
 Until 1992 the Winter and Summer Olympic Games were held in the same years, but in accordance with a 1986 decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to place the Summer and Winter Games on separate four-year cycles in alternating even-numbered years, the next Winter Olympics after 1992 was in 1994.
Temple Square (UTA station)
Temple Square is a light rail station in Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States, served by the Blue Line and Green Line of the Utah Transit Authority's (UTA) TRAX system.
 The Blue Line has service from the Salt Lake Intermodal Hub in Downtown Salt Lake City to Draper.
 The Green Line provides service from the Salt Lake City International Airport to West Valley City (via Downtown Salt Lake City). City Center (UTA station)
City Center is a light rail station in Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States, served by the Blue Line and Green Line of the Utah Transit Authority's (UTA) TRAX system.
 The Blue Line has service from the Salt Lake Intermodal Hub in Downtown Salt Lake City to Draper.
 The Green Line provides service from the Salt Lake City International Airport to West Valley City (via Downtown Salt Lake City). Green Line (TRAX)
The Green Line is a light rail line on the Utah Transit Authority's (UTA) TRAX system in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States, operated by the Utah Transit Authority (UTA).
 It opened on August 7, 2011, and runs between Airport Station at the Salt Lake City International Airport and West Valley Central Station in West Valley City (via Downtown Salt Lake City) serving a total of eighteen stations: thirteen in Salt Lake City, one in South Salt Lake, and four in West Valley City. Arena (UTA station)
Arena is a light rail station in Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States, served by the Blue Line and Green Line of the Utah Transit Authority's (UTA) TRAX system.
 The Blue Line has service from the Salt Lake Intermodal Hub in Downtown Salt Lake City to Draper.
 The Green Line has service from the Salt Lake City International Airport and to West Valley City via Downtown Salt Lake City. History of Salt Lake City
Originally, the Salt Lake Valley was inhabited by the Shoshone, Paiute, Goshute and Ute Native American tribes.
 At the time of the founding of Salt Lake City the valley was within the territory of the Northwestern Shoshone, who had their seasonal camps along streams within the valley and in adjacent valleys.
 One of the local Shoshone tribes, the Western Goshute tribe, referred to the Great Salt Lake as "Pi'a-pa", meaning "big water", or "Ti'tsa-pa", meaning "bad water".
 The land was treated by the United States as public domain; no aboriginal title by the Northwestern Shoshone was ever recognized by the United States or extinguished by treaty with the United States.
 Father Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, a Spanish Franciscan missionary is considered the first European explorer in the area in 1776, but only came as far north as Utah valley (Provo), some 60 miles south of the Salt Lake City area.
 The first US visitor to see the Salt Lake area was John Chugg in 1824.
 U.S. Army officer John C. Frémont surveyed the Great Salt Lake and the Salt Lake Valley in 1843 and 1845.
 The Donner Party, a group of ill-fated pioneers, traveled through the Great Salt Lake Valley a year before the Mormon pioneers.
 This group had spent weeks traversing difficult terrain and brush, cutting a road through the Wasatch Mountains, coming through Emigration canyon into the Salt Lake Valley on August 12, 1846.
 This same path would be used by the vanguard company of Mormon pioneers, and for many years after that by those following them to Salt Lake. Salt Lake City Air Route Traffic Control Center
Salt Lake City Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZLC) (radio communications "Salt Lake Center") is one of 22 FAA Area Control Centers in the United States.
 It is located in Salt Lake City, Utah, adjacent to Salt Lake City International Airport.
 It was opened in 1939 and was originally located on the third floor of the old Salt Lake City International Airport terminal.
 The Salt Lake Center (ZLC) covers one of the largest geographical areas of any other control center, totaling approximately 350,000 squares miles. Salt Lake City Police Department
The Salt Lake City Police Department (SLCPD) is headquartered in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, United States at 475 South and 300 East, one block east of the Salt Lake City Public Library.
 This headquarters is called the Salt Lake City Public Safety Building and is shared with the Salt Lake City Fire Department.
 The department was founded in 1851, under the newly created City Charter, when the Mayor authorized a police department to be created and forty men were appointed, earning 25 cents-an-hour.
 The SLCPD is a member city of the Major Cities Chiefs Association in its Western Region. Bids for the 2002 Winter Olympics
Four cities made the shortlist with their bids to host the 2002 Winter Olympics (formally known as "XIX Olympic Winter Games"), which were awarded to Salt Lake City, on June 16, 1995.
 The other cities shortlisted by the IOC Selection Committee chaired by Thomas Bach were Sion, Östersund and Quebec City.
 The host city selection procedure to for the 2002 Winter Olympics will go down in history as one of the most controversial, in light of the scandal regarding the interactions between the Salt Lake City bid team and International Olympic Committee (IOC) members; ten IOC members resigned as a result, as did Salt Lake City bid leaders Tom Welch and Dave Johnson.
 Nevertheless, Salt Lake City overwhelmingly won the right to host the Games, needing only one round to gain the absolute majority of the votes.