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  2. Winter sports in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 2022, winter sports had over 30 million US participants. [28] Outdoor Foundation reports that 8 million people participated in cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, or telemark skiing in the 2012-2013 winter season. [29] Winter sports are underrepresented by ethnic minorities due to the fact that such sports are expensive to play.

  3. Winter Olympic Games - Wikipedia

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    The Winter Olympic Games have evolved since their inception. Sports and disciplines have been added and some of them, such as alpine skiing, luge, short track speed skating, freestyle skiing, skeleton, and snowboarding, have earned a permanent spot on the Olympic program.

  4. Olympic Games - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Winter sports - Wikipedia

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    Winter sports or winter activities are competitive sports or non-competitive recreational activities which are played on snow or ice. [1] Most are variations of skiing, ice skating and sledding. Traditionally, such games were only played in cold areas during winter, but artificial snow and artificial ice allow more flexibility. Playing areas ...

  6. List of U.S. state sports - Wikipedia

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    State winter sport Delaware: Bicycling [5] 2014 Hawaii: Surfing (Heʻe nalu) [6] 1998 State individual sport Outrigger canoe paddling (Heihei waʻa) [7] 1986 State team sport Maryland: Jousting [8] 1962 State sport Lacrosse [9] 2004 State team sport Massachusetts: Basketball [10] [11] 2006 Sport of the Commonwealth Volleyball [12] [13] 2014

  7. Olympic sports - Wikipedia

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    Olympic sports are sports that are contested in the Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games. The 2024 Summer Olympics included 32 sports; [1] the 2022 Winter Olympics included seven sports. [2] [3] Each Olympic sport is represented at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by an international governing body called an International ...

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  9. International Ski and Snowboard Federation - Wikipedia

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    On February 2, 1924, in Chamonix as part of the "International Winter Sports Week", which was later to be recognized as the first Olympic Winter Games, 36 delegates from 14 countries (Great Britain, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Yugoslavia, Norway, Poland, Romania, US, Switzerland, Sweden, Hungary and Italy) decided to found the FIS ...

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