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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.
The Olympics are one of the world's oldest sporting events. Here's when the Games started, and how old they are ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics:
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.
The 2034 Winter Olympic Games will take place in Salt Lake City, Utah, International Olympic Committee members officially voted July 24. The locations for 2030 and 2034 Winter Olympics have been ...
The Winter Olympic Games (French: Jeux olympiques d'hiver) [a], also known as the Winter Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were held in Chamonix, France.
PARIS (Reuters) -Salt Lake City was awarded the 2034 Winter Olympic Games on Wednesday following a vote of the International Olympic Committee. The U.S. city, which hosted the 2002 Winter Games ...