how ofter is the winter olympics?
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It is every four years same with the summer olympics
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1924 , Chamonix\nhe first Winter Olympic Games were actually called “The International Winter Sports Week” and went on for 11 days in the French Alps, 60 miles northeast of Grenoble.\n\nAs expected, the Scandinavians dominated the 16–nation field. Norway and Finland won 27 of the 43 medals available, including all four Nordic events and four of the five speed skating races. Speed skater Clas Thunberg of Finland and Norwegian Nordic skier and jumper Thorleif Haug each won three gold medals.\n\nAmerican speed skater Charles Jewtraw won the first event of the Games with an upset in the 500 meters. But the most remarkable U.S. medal was the bronze won by Anders Haugen in the ski jump. Due to a scoring error at the time he didn't receive it until 1974 – when he was 83 years old.\n\nIn its first four hockey games, Canada beat Switzerland 33–0, Czechoslovakia 30–0, Sweden 22–0 and Great Britain 19–2, before winning the tournament with a 6–1 victory over the U.S. in the final.
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Try these web sites:\n\nOfficial Olympics web page\nhttp://www.olympic.org/uk/index_uk.asp\n\nNBC Sports\nhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9134568/\n\nCBC Sports\nhttp://www.cbc.ca/olympics/
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Never. This is a first in the Winter Olympics.
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There have been 19 Winter Olympics held in the following locations:\n\n1924: Chamonix (France)\n1928: St. Moritz (Switzerland)\n1932: Lake Placid (United States)\n1936: Garmish-Partenkirchen (Germany)\n1948: St. Moritz (Switzerland)\n1952: Olso (Norway)\n1956: Cortina d'Ampezzo (Italy)\n1960: Squaw Valley (United States)\n1964: Innsbruck (Austria)\n1968: Grenoble (France)\n1972: Sapporo (Japan)\n1976: Innsbruck (Austria)\n1980: Lake Placid (United States)\n1984: Sarajevo (Bosnia)\n1988: Calgary (Canada)\n1992: Albertville (France)\n1994: Lillehammer (Norway)\n1998: Nagano (Japan)\n2002: Salt Lake City (United States)\n\nand next month\n\n2006: Turin (Italy)
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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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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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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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In terms of a football competition, the FIFA World Cup.\n\n      However, as an overall athletic event, the Olympics, due to their history, and the amount of countries and people they bring together, is by far the better one.
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I think that there will be a tight race between the USA,, Canada, Russia and probably Germany or something like that. However, my bets are on the USA, considering that we always have one of the largest amount of athletes participating in the Olympics than any other country.
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The summer and winter olympics happen every 4 years.  They offset the summer and winter olympics in 1992 so that one or the other happens every two years.  As such, there was a winter olympic in 1992 and again in 1994, before resuming every 4 years again.
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For some people I can see how it would spoil the results.  But if you're a true fan of the Olympics then it doesn't matter.  It's unfortunate that they can't be held on our continent every time but there are other people in the world besides Americans. (That may shock some of you to learn!)  But we can all look forward to the next winter olympics that will be held in Canada.
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The Closing Ceremony of the XXth Winter Olympics will start at 2000 CET (1900 GMT, 1400 EST) on Sunday February 26th 2006.
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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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no, the winter olympics contain sports that have to do wih the winter, basketball is a summer event.
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First of all, I'm glad to see that somebody else besides me would prefer the olympics to be a sporting event, and not a biography on obscure athletes.  I can't stand to watch the olympics, because they never actually show any sports.\n\nBut... to answer your questions, it won't be all focused on ice skaters in mini skirts.  There will also be advertisements every 4.5 minutes.
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anyone who deserves to be less cared about\n\nthe olympics are where its at\n-----------------------------\nThe winter olympics are less watched because the winter sports aren't played year round in the US, and they dont recieve much TV recognition during their regular seasons.\n\nThere are different reasons why different people care about the olympics.  Most are pure sports fanatics. Many dont even watch them because they don't give a care about the sports, but rather the idea of all nations working and cooperating together.  The NBC broadcasting of these games may be pretty bad, but the main point is still there: These guys are the worlds best athletes, this is the ultimate oppertunity for them to prove themselves and demonstrate just how awesome they are.