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The Winter Olympic Games (French: Jeux olympiques d'hiver) [a], also known as the Winter Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were held in Chamonix, France. The modern Olympic Games were inspired by the ...
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.
1924 Winter Olympics (4 C, 3 P) 1928 Winter Olympics (5 C, 5 P) 1932 Winter Olympics (5 C, 5 P) 1936 Winter Olympics (7 C, 7 P) 1940 Winter Olympics (3 P) 1944 Winter Olympics (2 P) 1948 Winter Olympics (5 C, 4 P, 1 F) 1952 Winter Olympics (5 C, 4 P) 1956 Winter Olympics (5 C, 3 P, 1 F)
The U.S., coached by Herb Brooks, and Russia, coached by Slava Fetisov, met twice in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, which included a 2–2 round-robin draw and a 3–2 semi-final win for the Americans. The semi-final match was played 22 years to the day after the "Miracle on Ice" game. [ 6 ]
The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 (Arapaho: Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: Tit'-so-pi 2002; Navajo: Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: Soónkahni 2002), were an international winter multi-sport event that was held from February 8 to 24, 2002, in and around Salt Lake City, Utah ...
Venues of the 1984 Winter Olympics (10 P) Venues of the 1988 Winter Olympics (11 P) Venues of the 1992 Winter Olympics (15 P) Venues of the 1994 Winter Olympics (18 P) Venues of the 1998 Winter Olympics (20 P) Venues of the 2002 Winter Olympics (16 P) Venues of the 2006 Winter Olympics (22 P)
The 2018 Winter Olympics featured 102 events over 15 disciplines in 7 sports, [29] making it the first Winter Olympics to surpass 100 medal events. Six new events in existing sports were introduced to the Winter Olympic program in Pyeongchang: men's and ladies' big air snowboarding, mixed doubles curling , men's and ladies' mass start speed ...
Alpine skiing has been contested at every Winter Olympics since 1936, when a combined event was held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. From 1948 to 1980, the Winter Olympics also served as the World Championships in Olympic years, with separate competitions held in even-numbered non-Olympic years. During this period, the Olympic medalists ...