were the summmer and winter olympics always two years apart?
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No.  The last time they were in the same year was 1992.  The winter olympics was held again in 1994, then it resumed it's usual every 4 year pattern.
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The U.S. had both a Men's and Women's curling team in the 2002 Winter Olympics.\n\nYou can find their names and brief bios at:\n\nhttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2002/uscurling_bios/
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Everyone did real good.  But this Olympics were not as much hyped as it was for the games at Salt Lake City in 2002.  The Next games in 2010 will be much closer since it will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada.  Best of luck to those who wil compete in those games as well as those training for the Bejing games in the summer of 2008!
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The Olympics! (ie. not the winter olympics)\nThe winter olympics simply involes people sliding, almost every single winter olympics event is just another way to slide!\nEdit: I have to disagree with harley01xlc - The olympics (in my experience) are one of the least comcialised, very large scale sporting events in existence.
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You know something is wrong with this picture.  There is the Olympics and the senior Olympics but no inbetween Olympics.  I think you could actually be onto something here.  I suggest that you get a committee together and begin the process of starting up an "Olympics for Late Blommers". We are  missing our chance here, after all what about all of us late bloomers?
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I believe there was a blizzard that year but I don't know if it was January or not.
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I can't say that there was one moment in the whole Winter Games that I liked the most. Watching athletes' reactions as soon as they learn they've won the gold is pretty exciting. Especially seeing Shizuka Arakawa win Japan's first medal. Even Lindsey Kildow's crash inspired something. Just watching the Olympics is my favorite part.
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The new age record for the winter olympics will be set in Torino by Scott Baird from Minnesota and will compete in curling.  He is aged 54 and 282 days.  Before the Torino games, the oldest winter olympic athlete was James Coates who at the 1948 Winter Games the age of 53 and 328 days.  He competed in the skeleton, finishing seventh.
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Obviously this way, with the Summer and Winter Olympics not falling in the same year, it keeps people talking about it more often. And when they were both in the same year, I think it was easier to overlook Winter, since the Summer Olympics are more popular.
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The Olympic Games, or Olympics, are an international multi-sport event taking place every four years and comprising summer and winter games. Originally held in ancient Greece, they were revived by a French nobleman, Pierre Frèdy, Baron de Coubertin in the late 19th century.\n\n\nThe Commonwealth Games is a multi-sport event held every four years involving the elite athletes of the Commonwealth of Nations. The first such event, then known as the British Empire Games, was held in 1930. The name changed to British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954, to British Commonwealth Games in 1978 and assumed the current name of the Commonwealth Games in 1978.
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I have an two articles you can read. One is from Wikipedia and the other is from the IOC Website.
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because there are (feelslike) 1000 sports for summer but winter needs stupid stuff to fill in time. I love snowboard but I think its not olympic, Maybe just slalom.  plus its hard to include,more, sports that are judged subjectivly like figure skating.
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The Olympic Games(Olympics) is an sport event taking place every four years. Held in ancient Greece, and only taken part by male contenders, they were revived by the French Pierre  de Coubertin in the late 19th century.\nThe 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.\nThe Olympic Winter Games was first held in 1924. The first winter Olympics competitions were held as a sports festival, but were declared to be official Games by the International Olympic Committee in 1925. \nLearn more in the sites bellow\n\nPersian Wars\nThe Persian Wars were a series of conflicts between the Greek world and the Persian Empire that started about 500 BC and lasted until 448 BC. \nYou will find imfos in "Creco-persian wars" article in wikipedia \nSee also the article "Greece" and follow the links
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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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Really, no wonder people think that the world is heading in the wrong direction! The Winter Olympics are the biggest sporting festival in the world, second only to the Summer Games. How can you be so darn negative?
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The Gold medallists in Ice Dancing at the 1998 Winter Olympics were Oksana Frishuk and Evgeny Platov of Russia. The pair had earlier won gold at Lillehammer in 1994.
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they used to take place the same year.  Up until about 12 years ago.  it was too much Olympics to take (IMHO).