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The following is a list of host cities of the Olympic Games, both summer and winter, since the modern Olympics began in 1896. Since then, summer and winter games have usually celebrated a four-year period known as an Olympiad. From the inaugural Winter Games in 1924 until 1992, winter and summer Games were held in the same year.
The PRC, on the other hand, returned to the Olympics for the first time since 1952 and made its Winter Olympic debut. [ 68 ] [ 69 ] American speed-skater Eric Heiden set either an Olympic or World record in every one of the five events in which he competed, winning a total of five individual gold medals and breaking the record for most ...
Sports-reference.com profile of the Olympics. Accessed 25 February 2011. It lists all of the events with locations for each event. Beijing2008.cn profile. Accessed 25 February 2011. (in Chinese) Olympic.org profile of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Accessed 25 February 2011. London2012.com venue profile. Accessed 25 February 2011.
The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially the XIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Lake Placid 1980, were an international multi-sport event held from February 13 to 24, 1980, in Lake Placid, New York, United States.
The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games (French: XXI es Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and also known as Vancouver 2010 (Squamish: K'emk'emeláy̓ 2010), were an international winter multi-sport event held from February 12 to 28, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with some events held in the surrounding suburbs of Richmond, West Vancouver and the ...
The Winter Games continued to grow in the recent past, with 72 nations at the 1998 Winter Olympics, in Nagano, Japan, [24] 77 nations at the 2002 Winter Olympics, in Salt Lake City, United States, [25] 80 nations at the 2006 Winter Olympics, in Turin, Italy, [26] 82 nations at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, [27] 88 nations at ...
BC Place Stadium hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Olympic sites map For the 2010 Winter Olympics, a total of ten sports venues were used, seven in Vancouver (including BC Place), and three in Whistler. The majority of ice sport events were held in Vancouver, while Whistler, which normally serves as a ski resort, hosted the snow events. Six non-competition ...
Canada won its first gold medal at an Olympic Games it hosted, having failed to do so at both the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. Canada finished first in gold medal wins and became the first host nation since Norway in 1952 to lead the gold medal count, with 14. [4]