1998 Winter Olympics facts for kids

The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVIII Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1998 in Nagano, Japan. Other possible host cities were Aosta, Italy; Jaca, Spain; Östersund, Sweden; and Salt Lake City, USA. The selection was held in Birmingham, United Kingdom in 1991.

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Main hall of Zenkō-ji in Nagano City.
Furuhashi Hironoshin, past president of the JOC
M-Wave
A Nagano Shinkansen E2 Series "J" set in February 1998
Asagawa Loop Line to Iizuna Kogen Ski Area built in preparations for the Games
Stylized manhole cover displaying the Nagano Olympics emblem, with tactile paving
M-Wave interior
Nozawa Onsen Ski Resort
Media Village at Asahi, with the M-Wave in the background
The Nagano Olympic torch, displayed at the Olympic Museum in Nagano
The men's ice hockey gold medal game: Russia vs Czech Republic.
Midori Ito (seen here in 1989) lit the cauldron at the opening ceremony.
The silver, gold and bronze medals of Nagano 1998
Uschi Disl of Germany, won one gold, one silver, and one bronze in the biathlon.
Georg Hackl, seen here during competition at Oberhof, Germany in 2005, won gold in the men's singles luge competition.
Marianne Timmer won two gold medals for the Netherlands in speed skating.
Bjørn Dæhlie, pictured in January 2011
Kazuyoshi Funaki (pictured in 2014) won two gold medals and one silver for host Japan.
Ross Rebagliati (pictured in 2007) won the first-ever gold medal in men's giant slalom, before being disqualified, and then having his medal reinstated.