Winter Olympic Games to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, and the host of the 2026 Winter Olympics will be selected on June 23rd, 2019. , no city in the southern hemisphere has applied to host the cold-weather-dependent Winter Olympics, which are held in February at the height of the southern hemisphere summer. To date, twelve countries have participated in every Winter Olympic Games – Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States. Six of those countries have earned medals at every Winter Olympic Games – Austria, Canada, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the United States. The
2006 Winter Paralympics male and 101 female. This is an increase from the 430 athletes participated in 2002. Despite overall increase of delegates and athletes, the following nations who participated in the 2002 Winter Paralympics did not send athletes to Turin. Mexico is the only country who had sent an athlete to these Games but not the Winter Olympic Games in 2006. These are the second Paralympic Games to be held in Italy, which hosted the first Summer Paralympics in Rome in 1960. These are the first Paralympic Games to feature a live webcast of events, hosted by ParalympicSport.TV. The Games mascot is