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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 first winter sport to be contested at the modern Olympic Games was figure skating at the 1908 Games in London.A total of 21 skaters from six countries (Argentina, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, Russia, and the United States) competed in four events on 28–29 October. [1]
The 2026 Winter Olympics (Italian: Olimpiadi invernali del 2026), officially the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games and also known as Milano Cortina 2026, [1] is an upcoming international multi-sport event scheduled to take place from 6 to 22 February 2026 in three regions, with the Italian cities of Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo as main hosts.
The 2022 Winter Olympics are set to begin Feb. 4 in Beijing. ... The sports start a couple days earlier, with curling on Feb. 2. The Games then continue for two-plus weeks, up until the Closing ...
The Paris Summer Olympics and Paralympics may be over, but we still have another set of Games to look forward to: the 2026 Winter Olympics. In two years, the Games will travel to Italy, where ...
The 2022 Winter Olympics included a record 109 events over 15 disciplines in seven sports. [63] There are seven new medal events, including men's and women's big air freestyle, women's monobob , mixed team competitions in freestyle skiing aerials, ski jumping, and snowboard cross, and the mixed relay in short track speed skating.
This category contains articles about former and present Winter Olympic sports and disciplines. References for inclusion: IOC: Olympic sports For details of Olympic results by sport see Category:Sports at the Winter Olympics .
The Beijing Winter Olympics ratings are in and they aren’t good. Per Front Office Sports, the winter games drew the lowest ratings in the history of the Olympics since NBC began broadcasting the ...