Winter Olympic Games facts for kids
Winter Olympic Games were originally considered to be linked with the nation hosting the Summer Olympic Games. The country holding the summer games was preferred as the host for the winter games. Since 1948, the locations of summer and winter games have developed independent of each other.
- 1924 - I Olympic Winter Games - Chamonix, France
- 1928 - II Olympic Winter Games - St. Moritz, Switzerland
- 1932 - III Olympic Winter Games - Lake Placid, New York, United States
- 1948 - V Olympic Winter Games - St. Moritz, Switzerland
- 1952 - VI Olympic Winter Games - Oslo, Norway
- 1956 - VII Olympic Winter Games - Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
- 1960 - VIII Olympic Winter Games - Squaw Valley, California, United States
- 1964 - IX Olympic Winter Games - Innsbruck, Austria
- 1968 - X Olympic Winter Games - Grenoble, France
- 1972 - XI Olympic Winter Games - Sapporo, Japan
- 1976 - XII Olympic Winter Games - Innsbruck, Austria
- 1980 - XIII Olympic Winter Games - Lake Placid, New York, United States
- 1984 - XIV Olympic Winter Games - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (then Yugoslavia)
- 1988 - XV Olympic Winter Games - Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- 1992 - XVI Olympic Winter Games - Albertville, France
- 1994 - XVII Olympic Winter Games - Lillehammer, Norway
- 1998 - XVIII Olympic Winter Games - Nagano, Japan
- 2002 - XIX Olympic Winter Games - Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- 2006 - XX Olympic Winter Games - Torino, Italy
- 2010 - XXI Olympic Winter Games - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- 2014 - XXII Olympic Winter Games - Sochi, Russia
- 2018 - XXIII Olympic Winter Games - Pyeongchang, South Korea
- 2022 - XXIV Olympic Winter Games - Beijing, China
- 2026 - XXV Olympics Winter Games - Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
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Summer Games: 1896, 1900, 1904, 1906, 1908, 1912, (1916), 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, (1940), (1944), 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028 |
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Winter Games: 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, (1940), (1944), 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022 | ||
Athens 2004 — Turin 2006 — Beijing 2008 — Vancouver 2010 — London 2012 — Sochi 2014 — Rio 2016 — Pyeongchang 2018 — Tokyo 2020 Games in italics will be held in the future, and those in (brackets) were cancelled because of war. See also: Ancient Olympic Games |
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Summer Games: 2010, 2014, 2018 | ||
Winter Games: 2012, 2016, 2020 |
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Singapore 2010 — Innsbruck 2012 — Nanjing 2014 |
Images for kids
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The Herb Brooks Arenain Lake Placid (c. 2007), site ofthe "Miracle on Ice" in 1980
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The Olympic Torch from the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary
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Close-up of the Olympic Flame during the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin
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A memorial to Nodar Kumaritashvili in Whistler, photographed on 20 March 2010
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Juan Antonio Samaranch, former IOC president, who was in charge of the Olympic movement for more than 20 years
See also
In Spanish: Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno para niños
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