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Winter Olympic Games were originally considered to be linked with the nation hosting the Summer Olympic Games. The country holding the summer games was preferred as the host for the winter games. Since 1948, the locations of summer and winter games have developed independent of each other.

• 1924 - I Olympic Winter Games - Chamonix, France
• 1928 - II Olympic Winter Games - St. Moritz, Switzerland
• 1932 - III Olympic Winter Games - Lake Placid, New York, United States
• 1948 - V Olympic Winter Games - St. Moritz, Switzerland
• 1952 - VI Olympic Winter Games - Oslo, Norway
• 1956 - VII Olympic Winter Games - Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
• 1960 - VIII Olympic Winter Games - Squaw Valley, California, United States
• 1964 - IX Olympic Winter Games - Innsbruck, Austria
• 1968 - X Olympic Winter Games - Grenoble, France
• 1972 - XI Olympic Winter Games - Sapporo, Japan
• 1976 - XII Olympic Winter Games - Innsbruck, Austria
• 1980 - XIII Olympic Winter Games - Lake Placid, New York, United States
• 1984 - XIV Olympic Winter Games - Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
• 1988 - XV Olympic Winter Games - Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• 1992 - XVI Olympic Winter Games - Albertville, France
• 1994 - XVII Olympic Winter Games - Lillehammer, Norway
• 1998 - XVIII Olympic Winter Games - Nagano, Japan
• 2002 - XIX Olympic Winter Games - Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
• 2006 - XX Olympic Winter Games - Torino, Italy
• 2010 - XXI Olympic Winter Games - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• 2014 - XXII Olympic Winter Games - Sochi, Russia
• 2018 - XXIII Olympic Winter Games - Pyeongchang, South Korea
• 2022 - XXIV Olympic Winter Games - Beijing, China
• 2026 - XXV Olympics Winter Games - Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy

Winter Olympic Games Media

• Ulrich Salchowat the 1908 Olympics

• Sonja Henie gold 1928.jpg

  Sonia Henie's Olympic gold medal, St. Moritz 1928.

• 1956 Winter Olympics opening ceremonies.jpg

  The opening ceremonies of the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo

• Miracle on Ice.jpg

  The Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid (c. 2007), site ofthe "Miracle on Ice" in 1980

• Alberto Tomba Zagreb 2009.jpg

  Alberto Tomba, winner of five Olympic medals in Calgary, Albertville and Lillehammer

• The Olympic Torch from the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary

• 2002 Winter Olympics flame.jpg

  The Olympic flame during the Opening Ceremony of the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City

• Braciere Olimpico.jpg

  A close-up of the Olympic Flame during the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin

• 2010-2070-2100 Climate change threatens venues of Olympic Winter Games.svg

  The amount by which greenhouse gas emissions are reduced is forecast to substantially affect the number of Winter Olympic Game venues that will have reliably cold conditions.

• Juan Antonio Samaranch DF-ST-01-00128.JPEG.jpg

  Juan Antonio Samaranch, former IOC president, who was in charge of the Olympic movement for more than 20 years

References

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Summer Games: 1896, 1900, 1904, 1906, 1908, 1912, (1916), 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, (1940), (1944), 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028
Winter Games: 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, (1940), (1944), 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022
Athens 2004 — Turin 2006 — Beijing 2008 — Vancouver 2010 — London 2012 — Sochi 2014 — Rio 2016 — Pyeongchang 2018 — Tokyo 2020 Games in italics will be held in the future, and those in (brackets) were cancelled because of war. See also: Ancient Olympic Games