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The Sapporo Snow Festival (さっぽろ雪まつり, Sapporo Yuki-matsuri) is a festival held annually in Sapporo, Japan, over seven days in February. Odori Park , Susukino , and Tsudome are the main sites of the festival.
Start date End date Nations Competitors Sports Events Top-placed team Ref. 1: 1986 Sapporo Japan: Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah [b] 1 March 8 March 7 293 7 35 Japan [2] 2: 1990 Sapporo Japan: Emperor Akihito: 9 March 14 March 9 310 6 33 Japan [3] 3: 1996 Harbin China: President Jiang Zemin: 4 February: 11 February: 17 453 8 43 China [4] 4: ...
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 2025 Asian Winter Games (第九届亚洲冬季运动会), officially known as the 9th Asian Winter Games, and commonly known as Harbin 2025 (哈尔滨2025), is an ongoing continental winter multi sport events and the ninth edition of the Asian Winter Games, a multi-sport event held between 7 to 14 February 2025 in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
The 2017 Asian Winter Games (2017アジア冬季競技大会), also known as Sapporo 2017 (札幌2017), was a continental winter multi sport events and the 8th edition of the Asian Winter Games. They were held from February 19 to 26, 2017 in Sapporo and Obihiro in Hokkaido , Japan .
Sapporo was initially considered to bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics, but was withdrawn on 17 September 2018. Due to the cost overrun from the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics and facing a very likely situation of withdrawing the bid, a revised budget was released which would lower the cost of the games to between 280 billion and 300 ...
The French Alps was confirmed as host of the 2030 Winter Olympics at the 142nd IOC Session on 24 July 2024 in Paris, France. As per the new format of choosing future Olympic Games host cities from the IOC's Agenda 2020, the vote was in a form of a referendum to the 95 IOC delegates.
Odori Park (大通公園, Ōdōri Kōen) is a park located in the heart of Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. Ōdōri (大通) means "large street" in Japanese. It stretches east to west through Nishi 1 chōme, Ōdōri to Nishi 12 chōme, Ōdōri ("Nishi" means west, and "chōme" is a block in Japanese), and divides the city into north and south sections.