This Norwegian city was the site of the 1994 Winter Olympics
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Lillehammer - Wikipedia  Lillehammer is a town and municipality in Oppland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional ... Lillehammer hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics and 2016 Winter Youth Olympics. Before Oslo's ... The area has been settled since the Norwegian Iron Age; it is also mentioned as a site for council in 1390. Lillehammer had a lively...
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Lillehammer 1994 Winter Olympics - results & video highlights  to Host City  Sustainability  Legacy ... Country Norway ... In 1986 the IOC voted to change the schedule of the Olympic Games so that the Summer and ... To adjust to this new schedule, the Lillehammer Games were held in 1994, the only time...
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Norway at the 1994 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  Norway was the host nation for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. It was the second ... Website, www.idrett.no (Norwegian) ... 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, but Canada broke it during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
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1994 Lillehammer Winter Games | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com  News: Sports-Reference.com Widgets - Our Stats, Your Site post ... Host City: Lillehammer, Norway (February 12, 1994 to February 27, 1994) Opening ... Takers of the Olympic Oath: Vegard Ulvang (athlete) and Kari Kring (official) Closing...
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1994 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1994 Winter Olympics (Norwegian: Olympiske vinterleker 1994), officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games (French: Les XVIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver), was a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 12 to 27 February 1994 in and around Lillehammer, Norway. Lillehammer failed to win the bid for the 1992 event.
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Winter Olympic Games - Wikipedia  The Winter Olympic Games is a major international sporting event that occurs once every four ... Until 1992, the Winter and Summer Olympic Games were held in the same years, ... 1980, 2002); in France three times (1924, 1968, 1992); and in Austria (1964, 1976), .... It became the first city to host a Winter Olympics twice.
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2014 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games (French: Les XXIIes ... Sochi was elected on 4 July 2007 during the 119th International Olympic ... climate, Sochi is the warmest city to host a Winter Olympic Games. ..... The opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics was held on 7 February...
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1924 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. Originally called Semaine Internationale des Sports d'Hiver ("International Winter Sports Week") and held in association with the 1924 Summer ... The tradition of holding the Winter Olympics in the same year as the Summer...
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Winter Olympic Games - Wikipedia  The Winter Olympic Games is a major international sporting event that occurs .... The first Olympics after the war, the 1920 Summer Olympics, were ... year it was decided that the host nation of the 1924 Summer ... the Summer and Winter Olympics were held in the same country in the same year.
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1998 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially the XVIII Olympic Winter Games (French: Les XVIIIes Jeux ... Nagano is so far the southernmost city to host a Winter Olympics, next to Squaw ... They represent respectively fire (Sukki), air (Nokki), earth (Lekki) and water (Tsukki) and together they represent the four major islands of Japan.
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1992 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1992 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVI Olympic Winter Games were a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 8 to 23 February 1992 in Albertville, France. They were the last Winter Olympics to be held the same year as the Summer Olympics, and the first where the Winter ... The vote to select the host city of the 1992 Winter Olympics was conducted...
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2022 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The 2022 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXIV Olympic Winter Games (French: Les ... As well, it will become the first Olympic Winter Games ever to be held in ... Oslo withdrew its bid on 1 October 2014, leaving Almaty and Beijing as the 2 .... The environmental impact of hosting the games near Beijing has been...
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Free Flashcards about EUROPE - StudyStack  MALMO, ONE OF SWEDEN'S MAJOR CITIES, IS JUST 16 MILES FROM THIS .... IN THE LATE 1300S, MARGARET OF THIS COUNTRY TOOK CONTROL OF ..... ONE OF NORWAY'S BEST-KNOWN RESORTS, IT HOSTED THE 1994 WINTER...
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Winter Olympics Firsts - Topend Sports  The FIRST Winter Olympic Games were held in Chamonix, France in 1924. ... The FIRST Winter Games hosted in a national capital city was Oslo in 1952. ... The FIRST Winter Games to be broadcast in color was in Grenoble, France in 1968. ... The FIRST person to win five individual gold medals in one Games (Summer and...
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Venues of the 1998 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  For the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, a total of fifteen sports venues were used. Nagano had attempted twice to host the Winter Olympics, losing out to Sapporo, host of the 1972 Winter Olympics. The third time, in 1991, Nagano edged out Salt Lake City to host the 1998 .... Both Nordic combined events had their cross-country portions held in...
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1936 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games (German: Olympische Winterspiele 1936), were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1936 in the market town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, Germany. Germany also hosted the Summer Olympics the same year in Berlin. ... Sonja Henie won her third consecutive gold medal in woman's figure skating...
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Olympic speed skater Jansen falls after sister dies - Feb 14, 1988 ...  At his first Olympics, in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, he finished 16th in the 500 meters but came within a fraction ... In 1994, he won a second World Sprint Championship. ... In what became a memorable Olympic moment, Jansen took a victory lap around the ice carrying his young daughter Jane, named for his late sister.
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Winter Olympic Games - Wikipedia  The Winter Olympic Games is a major international sporting event that occurs once every four years.Unlike the Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics feature sports practised on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympics, the 1924 Winter Olympics, was held in Chamonix, France. ... Until 1992, the Winter and Summer Olympic Games were held in the same...
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1952 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1952 Summer Olympics (Finnish: Kesolympialaiset 1952) (Swedish: Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki, Finland, in 1952. Helsinki had been earlier selected to host the 1940 Summer Olympics, which .... 1952 Winter Olympics.
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Jeopary Questions page 1564 - I'VE TRAVELED EACH & EVERY ...  I DID IT NORWAY: Winter sports lovers benefit from the 2-billion-kroner upgrade of this 1994 Olympic city  THE RECORD SHOWS I TOOK THE BLOWS: In 1775...
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'I trained Olympics ski jumper Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards', says ...  Feb 26, 2016 ... Hapless ski jumper Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards stole the 1988 Winter ... 'But he begged me to help him and I thought he had this magical ... in a movie about Eddie The Eagle' to which I responded again: 'Who?' .... the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, and the 1994 Games in Lillehammer, Norway.