the next winter olympic games are held at pyeongchang.
the next winter olympic games are held at pyeongchang.
where are the next winter olympic games held?
pyeongchang
the winter olympic games have been hosted on three continents by twelve different countries. they have been held four times in the united states (1932, 1960, 1980 and 2002), three times in france (1924, 1968 and 1992) and twice each in austria (1964 and 1976), canada (1988 and 2010), japan (1972 and 1998), italy (1956 and 2006), norway (1952 and 1994) and switzerland (1928 and 1948). also, the winter olympic games have been held just once each in germany (1936), yugoslavia (1984), russia (2014) and south korea (2018). the ioc has selected beijing, china, to host the 2022 winter olympics and the italian cities of milan and cortina d'ampezzo to host the 2026 winter olympics. , no city in the southern hemisphere has applied to host the cold-weather-dependent winter olympic games, which are held in february at the height of the southern hemisphere's summer.
winter olympic games
the original five winter olympic sports (broken into nine disciplines) were bobsleigh, curling, ice hockey, nordic skiing (consisting of the disciplines military patrol, cross-country skiing, nordic combined, and ski jumping), and skating (consisting of the disciplines figure skating and speed skating). the games were held every four years from 1924 to 1936, interrupted in 1940 and 1944 by world war ii, and resumed in 1948. until 1992, the summer olympic games and the winter olympic games were held in the same year, and in accordance with the 1986 decision by the ioc to place the summer olympic games and the winter olympic games on separate four-year cycles in alternating even-numbered years, the next winter olympic games after 1992 were held in 1994.
winter olympic games