Winter Olympics
The idea to organize Olympic Games of Hiver is allocated to the count Clary and to the marquis de Polignac, both French representatives with CIO. They subject the idea in 1921. The question is discussed in June 1921 at the time of the congress of Lausanne, and the CIO decides for the admission of the winter sports to the Olympic family.
After the decision of the CIO in 1921, the winter sports will be held in a favourable place and not obligatorily in the city indicated to receive the Olympic Games of summer. It is advisable to announce that the winter sports already belonged to the program of the Olympic Games which took place only in summer:
- tests of Figure skating with the Olympic Games of 1908 with London and
- Olympic tournament of Hockey with the Olympic Games of 1908 with London and with the Olympic Games of 1920 with Antwerp.
The first Winter Olympics took place in 1924 in France with Chamonix. Since this date and until 1992, they are unrolled every four years (except those which were cancelled during the Second world war), the same year as the Olympic Games of summer (leap years). Since 1994, they always take place every four years, but are shifted two years compared to the Plays of summer.
The shape and the drawing of the medals are diversified than for those of the Plays of summer.
List Winter Olympics
- 1924 : {{Iers}} Winter Olympics to Chamonix (France)
- 1928: {{IIes}} Winter Olympics to Saint-Moritz (Swiss)
- 1932: {{IIIes}} Winter Olympics to Lake Placid (the United States)
- 1936: {{IVes}} Winter Olympics to Garmisch-Partenkirchen ()
- 1940: The {{Ves}} Winter Olympics to Garmisch-Partenkirchen () are cancelled because of the Second world war.
- 1944 : The {{Ves}} Winter Olympics to Cortina d' Ampezzo () are cancelled because of the Second world war.
- 1948 : {{Ves}} Winter Olympics to Saint-Moritz (Swiss)
- 1952: {{Lives}} Winter Olympics to Oslo (Norway)
- 1956: {{VIIes}} Winter Olympics to Cortina d' Ampezzo (Italy)
- 1960: {{VIIIes}} Winter Olympics to Squaw Valley (the United States)
- 1964: {{IXes}} Winter Olympics to Innsbruck (Austria)
- 1968: {{Xes}} Winter Olympics to Grenoble (France)
- 1972: {{XIes}} Winter Olympics to Sapporo (Japan)
- 1976: {{XIIes}} Winter Olympics to Innsbruck (Austria)
- 1980: {{XIIIes}} Winter Olympics to Lake Placid (the United States)
- 1984: {{XIVes}} Winter Olympics to Sarajevo (, current)
- 1988: {{XVes}} Winter Olympics to Calgary (Canada)
- 1992: {{XVIes}} Winter Olympics to Albertville (France)
- 1994: {{XVIIes}} Winter Olympics to Lillehammer (Norway)
- 1998: {{XVIIIes}} Winter Olympics to Nagano (Japan)
- 2002: {{XIXes}} Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City (the United States)
- 2006: {{XXes}} Winter Olympics to Turin (Italy)
- 2010: {{XXIes}} Winter Olympics to Vancouver and Whistler (Canada)
- 2014: {{XXIIes}} Winter Olympics to Sotchi (Russia)
Future plays
- Winter Olympics of 2018
- Winter Olympics of 2022
- Winter Olympics of 2026
- Winter Olympics of 2030
Olympic sports and disciplines
- Speed skating
- Scandinavian Shorts-track
- Ski
- Skeleton
- Snowboard
- alpine Test of parallel giant slalom
- Halfpipe
- Snowboard cross-country race
See too
External bonds
Documents pdf on the official site of the Olympic movement:- Winter Olympics
- opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics
- Records and medals
- the program of the Winter Olympics
- All the programs officels of the Olymiques Plays of winter
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