13 Facts About Winter Olympics

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Winter Olympics Olympic Games is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice.

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Winter Olympics attempted to have winter sports, specifically figure skating, added to the Olympic programme but was unsuccessful until the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.

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The weather was not the only noteworthy aspect of the 1928 games: Sonja Henie of Norway returned to the Winter Olympics to make history when she won the ladies' figure skating at the age of 15.

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Salt Lake City, previously a candidate for the 1972 Winter Olympics, then put itself forward, but the IOC opted instead to invite Innsbruck to host the 1976 Games, as most of the infrastructure from the 1964 Games had been maintained.

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In 1980 the Winter Olympics returned to Lake Placid, which had hosted the 1932 Games.

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6.

Winter Olympics's finished the Olympics with three golds, a silver and a bronze.

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7.

The rise of Asian nations in Winter Olympics sports is due in part to the growth of winter sports programmes and the interest in winter sports in nations such as Kazakhstan, South Korea, Japan and China.

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Lead-up to the 2018 Winter Olympics was affected by the tensions between North and South Korea and the ongoing Russian doping scandal.

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Winter Olympics's went on to win the women's 10km and 30km cross-country distances.

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10.

Winter Olympics's failed to win an individual medal after falling in her final routine.

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11.

The gifts received by IOC members from the Japanese Organising Committee for Nagano's bid for the 1998 Winter Olympics were described by the investigation committee as "astronomical".

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12.

Winter Olympics has the added problem of the alpine events requiring a mountain location; the men's downhill needs an 800-meter altitude difference along a suitable course.

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13.

Winter Olympics have been an ideological front in the Cold War since the Soviet Union first participated at the 1956 Winter Games.

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