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.

It was here that the 1984 Winter Olympics were held.

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

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.

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.

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

Dick Durrance and Tim Caldwell competed for the United States in skiing in the 1936 and 1976 Winter Olympics, respectively.

Earlier in the year the band had performed at one of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics victory concerts at Whistler Medals Plaza and donated a collection of objects to the Ohio Historical Society including an energy dome, jumpsuit, stickers, and t-shirts.

El Niño warmed Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics, such that the area experienced a subtropical-like winter during the games.

* 1998 – American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

The four disciplines of men's singles, ladies ' singles, pair skating and ice dancing will also appear as part of a team event for the first time at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

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 ).

While Hunt negotiated with Bidwills, similar offers were made by Bud Adams, Bob Howsam, and Max Winter.

The Winter Garden and other portions of the World Financial Center were severely damaged.

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.

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.

( In Hubbard's earliest publications on the subject, engrams were variously referred to as " Norns ", " Impediments ," and " comanomes " before " engram " was adapted from its existing usage at the suggestion of Joseph Winter.

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.

Until 1992, both Summer and Winter Olympics were held in the same year.

The first Summer Youth Olympics were in Singapore in 2010 and the first Winter Youth Olympics were held in Innsbruck in 2012.

After the Winter of Discontent and the subsequent fall of the Labour government, many corners of the public and media believed that the trade unions were running the Labour Party-an image which Neil Kinnock was keen to shake off after becoming party leader in 1983.

However, a new professional team in the area did not surface again until August 1959, when Minneapolis businessmen Bill Boyer, H. P. Skoglund, and Max Winter were awarded a franchise in the new American Football League ( AFL ).

Bot chat lines were written by R. A. Salvatore, Seven Swords and Steve Winter.

Artificial ices entered the long track competitions with the 1960 Winter Olympics, and the competitions in 1956 on Lake Misurina were the last Olympic competitions on natural ice.

At the 1994 Winter Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics, the nations that were part of the Unified Team started to make their Olympic debuts.

The 2002 Salt Lake City and the 2006 Turin Winter Olympic Games were also major events, though less popular.

The Summer Olympics were resumed in 1948 in London and the Winter games were held that year in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

According to a press conference held in Winter Park, Florida, on February 2, 1967, by Disney Vice President Donn Tatum, the Improvement District and Cities were created to serve " the needs of those residing there ", and the company needed its own government to " clarify the District's authority to services within the District's limits " and because of the public nature of the planned development.

It is also believed that the last day of Winter ( the white ), which is the first day of Spring ( also known as Nowrouz ), is the day that all the " Good " s will over come all the " Bad " s for ever.

The Games were the first to be celebrated after World War II ; it had been 12 years since the last Winter Games in 1936.

The Nordic Games were last held in 1926, after which the 1924 Winter Sports Week in Chamonix was declared the first Olympic Winter Games.

Although she finishes last, she becomes popular with fans, and will take the gold at the next three Winter Olympics.

Finding themselves in the same situation as Gillis Grafström, the Canadian ice-hockey team is the last ever to successfully defend its Summer Olympics title at the Winter Olympics.

The Winter Palace of the Bogd Khan ( Bogd khaanii nogoon süm or Bogd khaanii öwliin ordon ) remains as a museum of the last monarch.

Winter temperatures generally last from the middle of December until the middle of March, while summer temperatures generally occur between the middle of May to close to the end of September.

For several historians, it seemed that Wallonia sprang from these strikes and likely from the last Belgian general strike the 1960-1961 Winter General Strike.

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Winter like conditions generally last from the mid-December until mid-March, while summer temperatures generally occur between end-May to close to the end-September.

They were the last Winter Olympics to be held the same year as the Summer Olympics, and the first where the Winter Paralympics were held at the same site.

The games were the last Winter Games to have demonstration sports, consisting of curling, aerials, ski ballet and speed skiing.

Winter storms are the most destructive, the last of significance being the Great Blizzard of 1978.

The feature's final installment was in issue # 101 ( Feb. 1945 ), and the Spectre made his last appearance in the superhero group the Justice Society of America at roughly the same time in All Star Comics # 23 ( Winter 1944 – 1945 ).

Selwyn is the only Cambridge college to hold an annual Winter Ball known as the Selwyn Snowball, which traditionally takes place on the night of the last Friday of Michaelmas Term.

These were the last Winter Olympics without Alpine skiing, which was added in 1936.

The river rises on Winter Hill on the West Pennine Moors, and flows for through several towns and onto the Ribble estuary past Tarleton, the last or so being tidal.

1936 is the last year in which the Summer and Winter Games were both held in the same country ( the cancelled 1940 games would have been held in Japan, with that country likewise hosting the Winter and Summer games ).

The games were held after the 1988 Winter Paralympics in Innsbruck, the last time the two aspects of the Games were not held in the same city.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics, while trying to chase down eventual downhill champion Lindsey Vonn of the United States, Pärson lost her balance on the last jump before the finish, resulting in a 60-metre flight and subsequent fall, without however suffering serious injury.

On March 24, 1917, Baker played his last hockey game at the Winter Garden at Exposition Hall in Pittsburgh.