why weren't there an olympics in 1990?
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The summer Olympics are held every four years. The year is divisible by 4, i.e. a leap year.  The winter Olympics are also held every 4 years. Until 1992 they were held the same year as the summer Olympics. After the 1992 games, they were switched to so that they now fall midway between the summer Games, that is leap year plus 2. The first winter games on this schedule were in the Lillehammer games in 1994 held only 2 years after the Albertville in 1992.\n\nIt had nothing to do with the fall of eastern Europe.
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Seems like you're a few decades behind!  I'm not sure of the exact date, but the world used to host the Olympics every four years, and both Summer and Winter Games would be in the same year.  \n\nFor example, during the Cold War, the 1980 Olympics were held in Lake Placid (winter) and in Moscow (summer) later that year.  There was some controversy because the Easterners (Russia, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, etc.) talked about boycotting the Lake Placid games, and President Carter talked about retrobuting by boycotting the Moscow games.  Something like that.  \n\nAnyways, since then, the schedule has changed, and the Olympics are every two years.  The seasonal games, like the summer games, are held every 4 years.  The schedule is: Beijing 2008(summer), Vancouver 2010(winter), and London 2012(summer).  Check out the links below for more info. (there are links to each of the sites from olympic.org)
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The first Olympics were held in ancient Greece around 700 B.C. If you mean the first modern Olympics, they started in 1896 in Athens.
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You should have said NO back in 2001 when the IOC voted democratically (one member, one vote except for those IOC members from the countries still in the running) to give the 2008 Games to Beijing. In other words, you've rather missed the boat by about 5 years.
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Sorry, those game are over.  They were in Torino, Italy.  For a list of finalists, try going to the official Olympics website and looking for news on finalists before Torino.
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This is the only information I can find regarding the event at Barcelona 1992 that you are after:\n\nUNIFIED TEAM (EX USSR)  (Gold)\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA  (Silver)\nGREAT BRITAIN  (Bronze)\n\nFor details, you have have to contact the Spanish Olympic Committee
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Err. do you mean the world cup? the olympics were in 1992 and 1996
80660
At the time the major difficulty is the fact that the Olympics were overshadowed by the 1904 World's Fair. Currently I believe that it gave St. Louisans a sense of pride. Particuarly in 2004 when St. Louis was able to particapate in the global torch relay. I know that St. Louis had a huge celebration in 2004 for the 100th anniversary of the World's Fair, the Olympics and the 200th anniversary of Lewis and Clark. If you are interested in learning more about any of the afore mentioned events check out the following website.
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The Summer Olympics (Games of the Olympiad) have been held every fourth year starting in 1896, with the exception of the years during the World Wars.\n\nA special edition for winter sports, the Olympic Winter Games, was first held in 1924. The first winter Olympics competitions were originally held as a non-Olympic sports festival, but were declared to be official Games by the International Olympic Committee in 1925. Originally these were held in the same year as the Summer Olympics, but from 1994 the Winter Games and the Summer Games are held two years apart.\n\nThere are many legends surrounding the origin of the ancient Olympic Games. One of these associates the first Games with the ancient Greek concept of εκεχειρία (ekecheiria) or Olympic Truce. The date of the Games' inception based on the count of years in Olympiads is reconstructed as 776 BC, although scholars' opinions diverge between dates as early as 884 BC and as late as 704 BC.\n\nIn the 17th century, the Olympic Games sports festival was held in England, followed by the National Olympic Games, which were established in the 19th century and continue to this day. Later, similar events were organised in France and Greece, but these were all small-scale and certainly not international.\n\nThe interest in reviving the Olympics grew when the ruins of ancient Olympia were uncovered by German archaeologists in the mid-19th century. At the same time, Baron Pierre de Coubertin was searching for a reason for the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871). He thought the reason was that the French had not received proper physical education, and sought to improve this. In 1890 he attended the Wenlock Olympian Society. Coubertin also thought of a way to bring nations closer together, to have the youth of the world compete in sports, rather than fight in war. In his eyes, the recovery of the Olympic Games would achieve both of these goals.\n\nIn a congress at the Sorbonne University, in Paris, held from June 16 to June 23, 1894 he presented his ideas to an international audience. On the last day of the congress, it was decided that the first modern Olympic Games would take place in 1896 in Athens, in the country of their birth. To organise the Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was established, with the Greek Demetrius Vikelas as its first president.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Games#Ancient_Olympics
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There was no world cup in '64.
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The first official World Cup, The 1932 Summer Olympics, held in Los Angeles, did not plan to include football as part of the programme due to the low popularity of football in the United States. FIFA and the IOC also disagreed over the status of amateur players, and so football was dropped from the Games.[5] FIFA president Jules Rimet thus set about organizing the inaugural World Cup tournament to be held in Uruguay in 1930.
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1992 marked the last time that the Winter and Summer Olympics were held in the same year... Albertville, France for Winter and Barcelona, Spain for Summer.  \n\nTwo years later in 1994, the Winter Olympics appeared in Lillehammer, Norway... and then every four years after that (1998- Nagano, Japan; 2002- Salt Lake City, USA; 2006-Torino, Italy; 2010- Vancouver, Canada). \n\nIn 1996, the Summer Olympics appeared in Atlanta, USA... and then every four years after that (2000- Sydney, Australia; 2004- Athens, Greece; 2008- Beijing, China).\n\nSo, if you just watch the Winter or just watch the Summer... then you get a veiwing every four years.  However, you do have the opportunity to watch an Olympic Game every two years.
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War?  Don't you mean Olympics?
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sadly not. the reason for not being included is that they could be playing even when the olympics has got over!
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Well, I don't think SLC could hold a Summer Olympics, but only because they already hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics.  I may be wrong, but isn't a city only allowed one Olympics? I think it would be unfair.
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INNSBRUCK  1976\n\nXII Olympic Winter Games\n\nDenver was supposed to host them, but the people of Denver didn't want to use public funds, so Innsbruck stepped in and the 1976 Olympics were held in Innsbruck.
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Due to World War I the 1916 Games were cancelled, and because of World War II the games of 1940 and 1944 were also skipped.\n\nThere was also a gap between 393 (the last of the ancient games) and 1896 (the first year of the Modern Olympics)