In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Bombardier also manufactured the Olympic Torch for the 2010 Winter Olympics Torch Relay

Full, joint BWCHs have never been held in Olympic Winter Games seasons.

Curling has been an official sport in the Winter Olympic Games since the 1998 Winter Olympics.

In February 2002, the International Olympic Committee retroactively decided that the curling competition from the 1924 Winter Olympics ( originally called Semaine des Sports d ' Hiver, or International Winter Sports Week ) would be considered official Olympic events and no longer be considered demonstration events.

Thus, the first Olympic medals in curling, which at the time was played outside, were awarded for the 1924 Winter Games, with the gold medal won by Great Britain and Ireland, two silver medals by Sweden, and the bronze by France.

A demonstration tournament was also held during the 1932 Winter Olympic Games between four teams from Canada and four teams from the United States, with Canada winning 12 games to 4 .< ref >

The Olympic torch relay for the 2002 Winter Olympics passed through the arch.

Figure skating is an official event in the Winter Olympic Games.

These include the Winter Olympic Games, the World Championships, the World Junior Championships, the European Championships, the Four Continents Championships, and the Grand Prix series ( senior and junior ).

On July 4, 2007 the International Olympic Committee gathered in Guatemala City and voted Sochi to become the host for the 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.

The IOC organizes the modern Olympic Games and Youth Olympic Games, held in Summer and Winter, every four years.

The first Summer Olympics organized by the International Olympic Committee were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896 ; the first Winter Olympics were in Chamonix, France, in 1924.

After that year, however, the IOC shifted the Winter Olympics to the even years between Summer Games, to help space the planning of the two events two years apart from one another, and improve the financial balance of the IOC, which receives greater income on Olympic years.

* 1924 – The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, France ( in the French Alps ), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.

During World II the winter games were canceled but after that time the Winter Games have been held in St. Moritz ( 1948 ), Innsbruck, Austria ( 1964 and 1976 ), Grenoble, France, ( 1968 ), Albertville, France, ( 1992 ), and Torino, Italy, ( 2006 ).

* 1976 – The inaugural Winter Paralympic Games opened in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden.

As well, the IFF hopes that floorball will be included as a demonstration sport at the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games.

There is a strong possibility that it will be played at the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games.

* 2002-Iqaluit, along with Nuuk, Greenland, co-host the first jointly hosted Arctic Winter Games ; the Arctic Winter Games Arena was constructed in Iqaluit for the event.

Weil was mistakenly arrested in Finland at the outbreak of the Winter War suspected of spying ; however, accounts of his life having been at danger have been shown to be exaggerated.

Papers from a recent Rabbinical Assembly conference on theology were printed in a special issue of the journal Conservative Judaism ( Winter 1999 ); the editors note that Kaplan's naturalism seems to have dropped from the movement's radar screen.

The Winter Olympics, the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and the FIS World Cup events ( including the Holmenkollen and the Tour de Ski, a grueling 9 race series completed in eleven days ) have long been a showcase for the world's fastest cross country skiers.

In the sequel to Summer of Night, A Winter Haunting, Dale Stewart ( one of the first book's protagonists, and now an adult ), revisits his boyhood home to come to grips with mysteries that have disrupted his adult life.

Certain courses from the series have also appeared in F-Zero X, Itadaki Street DS, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, and Fortune Street.

The Soldau concentration camp was established in Winter 1939, here 13, 000 people have been murdered by the Nazi German state during the war.

As a consequence of this Altfed and Cimbala have argued that belief in Nuclear Winter has made Nuclear Warfare more plausible and not less, contrary to what Carl Sagan and others have argued, for Nuclear Winter inspired the technological imperative toward improved accuracy and weaponry.

It could also have represented the hated figure of Winter whose destruction prepares the way for Spring.

His collaborations with musician Brian Jackson ( Pieces of a Man, Winter in America ) have been cited as major influences on hip hop, in terms of sound and lyrical style.

NBC, which had held XXVII ( according the original rotation, NBC would have had XXVI and CBS XXVII, but the NFL allowed the networks to switch the two games in order to allow CBS a significant lead-in to its coverage of the 1992 Winter Olympics ), was the only network to bid on XXVIII.

Winter temperatures have increased more than summer temperatures.

In order to justify the Western Allies ' alliance with the Soviet Union, the series misportrayed or simply omitted many facts, which could have cast doubts on the " good guy " status of the Soviets, such as the Nazi-Soviet alliance, Soviet invasion of Poland ; Soviet occupation of the Baltic States, Winter War and others.

Winter sports often have their own multi-sport tournaments, such as the Winter Olympic Games.

However, skaters from the Four Continents have become more competitive since the 2000s in what was termed a " dance revolution " by ESPN ; with Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto taking silver in the 2006 Winter Olympics.

This is the first time the Americans have swept a Winter Olympic event since the men's figure skaters did in 1956.

At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, for the first time at an international athletics event, the guides will receive medals, such as the pilots in cycling, and the guides at the Paralympic Winter Games have done for a while.

Ironically, if the proposals had become law, many of the activities of the trades unions during the Winter of Discontent a decade later would have been illegal.

Winter monsoons, by contrast, have a dominant easterly component and a strong tendency to diverge, subside and cause drought.

Winter itch was treated by applying strong apple cider in which pulverized bloodroot had been steeped.

Thus, when Dartmouth's Winter Carnival -- widely recognized as the greatest, wildest, roaringest college weekend anywhere, any time -- was broadcast over a national television hookup, Prexy John Sloan Dickey appeared on the screen in rugged winter garb, topped off by a tam-o'-shanter which he confessed had been acquired from a Smith girl.

Finland's foreign politics before this deal had been varied: independence from Imperial Russia with support of Imperial Germany in 1917 ; participation in the Russian Civil War ( without official declaration of war ) alongside the Triple Entente 1918 – 1920 ; a non-ratified alliance with Poland in 1922 ; association with the neutralist and democratic Scandinavian countries in the 1930s ended by the Winter War ( 1939 ); and finally in 1940, a rapprochement with Nazi Germany, the only power able to protect Finland against the expansionist Soviet Union, leading to the Continuation War in 1941.

Men's ice hockey has been played at the Winter Olympics since 1924, and was in the 1920 Summer Olympics.

ITV television has been available on parts of the east of the Isle of Man on 3rd May 1956 when Granada Television transmissions started from the Winter Hill transmitting station, and to parts of the west of the island on 1st October 1959 from the Black Mountain transmitting station in Northern Ireland which broadcast Ulster Television.

By the end of the 1980s, membership had fallen to just over 6, 000, 000 — little more than half the level of a decade earlier — and it also counted against the Labour Party's hopes of regaining power, as its relationship with the trade unions had traditionally been seen as a strength but after the Winter of Discontent it was seen as a liability.

As previously mentioned, Albert's son, Kenny, is also a sports commentator, as he calls baseball and football for Fox, New York Rangers games on the radio, and has been one of NBC's commentators for ice hockey at the Winter Olympics, as well as NBC's NHL coverage.

Although women's races had been held in North America for some time and at the 1932 Winter Olympics in a demonstration event, the ISU did not organize official competitions until 1936.

During the Winter Olympics, the National Olympic Committees ( NOCs ) of the constituent countries had not yet been affiliated to the IOC, so the Olympic Flag was used in place of a national flag at the Opening Ceremony and at medals ceremonies, and the Olympic Hymn was played for gold medallists.

Judging for ice dancing has been more controversial than other figure skating disciplines in the Olympics, and this gained considerable negative publicity at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan.

Ice dance was introduced into the Winter Olympics starting with the 1976 edition, and all but two gold medals had been won by Soviet / CIS / Russian pairs.

Bobsleigh was not included in the 1960 Winter Olympics, but has been in every Winter Olympics since.

The sport was included at the 1924 Winter Olympics, and has been on the programme ever since.

Ski jumping has been part of the Olympic Winter Games since the first Games in Chamonix Mont-Blanc in 1924.