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
Cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's team sprint to press reports Lisogor and Serdyuk had refused to start because they had been denied to wear black arm bands. The National Olympic Committee of Ukraine claimed Serdyuk was injured. At the medal ceremony in Sochi on 20 February, the day after the race, all medals were awarded by IOC member H.R.H. Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and flowers to all medalists were awarded by Mats Årjes, FIS council member. Cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's team sprint The women's team sprint cross-country skiing competition in the classical technique at the 2014 Sochi Olympics took place on