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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 previous map implicates that the peninsula is a part of Russia (which occupied and annexed it in 2014), which contradicts UN position. It is important to note that Moscow hosted 1980 Olympics as a capital of the USSR and some venues were held outside Russian SFSR: in Minsk, Kyiv and Tallinn.
Black dots = Cities that have hosted one winter olympics; Orange dots = Cities that have hosted two winter olympics (Lake Placid, USA; St. Moritz, Switzerland; and Innsbruck, Austria) Note that because Sarajevo was part of Yugoslavia when the winter olympics was held in 1984, all of Yugoslavia has been colored in here.
America's Olympic hopefuls hail from cities like San Jose, Chicago and Buffalo; small towns in the Heartland where the biggest hill wouldn't scare your average 6-year-old toboggan owner; and even ...
The following are lists of all Olympic venues, starting with the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, organized alphabetically, by sport, and by year. As a multi-sport event , competitions held during a given Olympics usually take place in different venues located across the host city and its metropolitan area.
For George Young, Jim Ryun, Billy Mills and Conrad Nightingale, northern Arizona was also the perfect place to train for the Olympics since the 1968 Summer Games would be the first held higher ...
Salt Lake City offered to host the games, but IOC finally chose Innsbruck instead. From 1994, Winter Olympics were held between Summer Olympic years. Starting with the 2004 Olympics, only the highest-rated cities are short-listed for the final IOC vote. [2] Innsbruck, Lake Placid, and St. Moritz are the only cities to have hosted two games.
The Winter Olympics in Sochi have begun. Check back throughout the games for the latest schedules and medal counts for each competing country and athlete. Published: Saturday, Feb. 8, 4 a.m. | Updated: Sunday, Feb. 23, 9:27 a.m.