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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.
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March 8 – 16: 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Turin; May 17 – 30: 2025 Summer World Masters Games in Taipei-New Taipei City; July 2 – 12: 2025 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Skopje; July 11 – August 3: 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore; July 16 – 27: 2025 Summer World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr
Skaters who were born between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2007 are eligible to compete at the Winter World University Games if they are registered as proceeding towards a degree or diploma at a university or similar institute, or obtained their academic degree or diploma in the year preceding the event.
The Winter Olympics was created to feature snow and ice sports that were logistically impossible to hold during the Summer Games. Figure skating (in 1908 and 1920) and ice hockey (in 1920) were featured as Olympic events at the Summer Olympics. [45] The IOC desired to expand this list of sports to encompass other winter activities.
Beijing became the first city ever to have hosted both the Summer and Winter Olympics. Like the Summer Olympics held six months earlier in Tokyo, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the implementation of strict health and safety protocols, including restrictions on public attendance at the Games. The Games included a record 109 events over 15 ...
According to Bye-law 3.2 to Rule 45 of the Olympic Charter (2023), Summer Olympics should be approximately limited to 10,500 athletes, 5,000 coaches and support personnel and 310 events, while Winter Olympics should be capped at around 2,900 athletes, 2,000 coaches and support personnel and 100 events, unless agreed to otherwise by the ...