What Olympic games can we say count more in importance? Summer or Winter?
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I believe in theory, both summer and winter are supposed to be equal. However, in reality, I believe that summer is more important. Not every country has ice/snow (where are people supposed to find snow in the Sahara desert, except if you're lucky to be living on a mountain that contains some type of ice/snow?). Therefore, not very many peole are able to compete in a lot of the competitions in the Winter Olympics. However, there's always something that somebody can find to do in the Summer Olympics (like running, or swimming, or gymnastics). That is why I think that the Summer Olympics is more important than the Winter Olmpics.
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If you mean to say the Winter Olympics it is 4 times, first in Lake Placid, New York in 1932, then in Squaw Valley, California, 1960, next it was again in Lake Placid, New York in 1980 and finally in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2002. If you mean to say the Summer Olympics it is 4 times also, first in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904 which was Olympic number 3, then in L.A, California in 1932 which was the tenth Olympic, next it was in L.A, California too in 1984 which was the 23rd Olympic and finally it was in Atlanta, Georgia in 1996 which was 26th Olympic.
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No, but if you think about it, Basketball should be in the winter games.  It was invented as a sport for the winter, its season beings in November, peeks in Feb-March and ends before the summer.  And the Hockey All-star game belongs where it is, it provides a needed break, and a chance to retool for a playoff push.  The NFL wishes it could do its allstar game before the end of the season
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Not the Ancient Greeks, if this Wikipedia entry is correct:\n\nThe 1928 Games were the first true Winter Olympics, held on its own, and not in conjunction with a Summer Olympics. The preceding 1924 Winter Olympics were retroactively renamed into Winter Olympics. They were actually part of the 1924 Summer Olympics. All preceding Winter Events of the Olympic Games were the winter sports part of the schedule of the Summer Games, and not as a separate Winter Games. These games also replaced the now redundant Nordic Games, that were held quadrennially since early in the century.\nContents
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Well, the next XX Winter Olympics are going to be held at Torino, Italy From the 10th to 26th February 2006\n\nThe next summer Olympic games ( XXIX) are going to be held at BEIJING, China From the 8th August to 24th August 2008\n\nAfter that, following is the sequence :\n\nVANCOUVER 2010\nXXI Olympic Winter Games\nFrom the 12th to 28th February 2010\n\nLONDON 2012\nGames of the XXX Olympiad\nFrom the 27th July to 12th August 2012
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To become a winter olympic gold medalist you will need a lot of hard work especially if you are from a country with no snow.  Good luck
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Torino and Turin are one and the same. The XXth Winter Olympics are organised by the Italians and in Italian, Turin in Torino. Still not convinced? Okay, look here (and then be amazed)
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Winter Olympics -- Skeleton ... I'm just amazed how they can fly down the track head first like that. Childhood sledding to the Nth degree.\n\nSummer Olympics -- Water Polo.\n\nNot that either sport is my favorite sport to watch that is part of the Olympics, but you can watch hockey and even skiiing and figure skating all the time and the same for swimming, basketball, baseball and even track and field. But other than when the Olympics are on can you see either skelton or water polo televised?
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The next Summer Olympic Games are in 2008 and will be held in Beijing, China.  The next Winter Games will be in 2010 and will be held in and around Vancouver, Canada.  Following that there will be a Summer Olympics in London, UK in 2012.  No other host cities have been chosen at this time.
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Much prefer the summer olympics... but have been watching certain events (i.e. hockey, skeleton, speed skating)
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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 Olympics are staggered 2 years apart.  The last summer Olympics were in 2004, winter 2006, next summer Olympics will be 2008, next winter Olympics will be 2010.
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The Olympics games were not originally an international competition, they were held with in Greece.  They used to be male only competitions, and the men had to compete naked to prove they were male after a woman competed and beat some men somewhere back in history before they had to do it nude.\nThere are many more sports in the modern olympics than there were in the classic games, tho there are some that remain, mainly athletic events such as javelin, discus, jumps and running events.\nDuring the classical period the olympic movement did not have the same ideals as the modern one, and there were no winter olympics.\nThe 5 interlocking rings is a new symbol, though there was a torch in the classical period.\nThe games from classical greece were held to honour the gods, now they are used to spread a message about good sportsmanship and international co-operation.\nRules have become rationalised in the modern olympics, no doubt in the classic games the final decision was made by an important official, probably with a few favourites....
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Winter = Canada 2010\nSummer - China 2008 (Bejing)
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If you base the performance on medals won, the best performing nation in Modern Olympic history is the USA. \n\nThe  link shows the total medals won by nation, for both the Summer & Winter games.
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the x-games they seem to go more extreme in the x-games than the winter olympics
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Yes. The dates have been set.\n\nOlympic Winter Games: February 12-28, 2010