Winter Olympic Games

Winter Olympic Games were originally considered to be linked with the nation hosting the Summer Olympic Games.  The country holding the summer games was preferred as the host for the winter games.Organizing Committee of the XIIth Olympiad. (1940).  Report of the Organizing Committee on Its Work for the XIIth Olympic Games of 1940 in Tokyo Until the Relinquishment, p. 127 [151 of 207 PDF];  retrieved 2012-7-25.  Since 1948, the locations of summer and winter games have developed independent of each other.
 1924 - I Olympic Winter Games - Chamonix, France
 1928 - II Olympic Winter Games - St. Moritz, Switzerland
 1932 - III Olympic Winter Games - Lake Placid, New York, United States
 1948 - V Olympic Winter GamesThe 1940 Winter Olympics and the 1944 Winter Olympics were cancelled because of World War II. - St. Moritz, Switzerland
 1952 - VI Olympic Winter Games - Oslo, Norway
 1956 - VII Olympic Winter Games - Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
 1960 - VIII Olympic Winter Games - Squaw Valley, California, United States
 1964 - IX Olympic Winter Games - Innsbruck, Austria
 1968 - X Olympic Winter Games - Grenoble, France
 1972 - XI Olympic Winter Games - Sapporo, Japan
 1976 - XII Olympic Winter Games - Innsbruck, Austria
 1980 - XIII Olympic Winter Games - Lake Placid, New York, United States
 1984 - XIV Olympic Winter Games - Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
 1988 - XV Olympic Winter Games - Calgary, Alberta, Canada
 1992 - XVI Olympic Winter Games - Albertville, France
 1994 - XVII Olympic Winter Games - Lillehammer, Norway
 1998 - XVIII Olympic Winter Games - Nagano, Japan
 2002 - XIX Olympic Winter Games - Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
 2006 - XX Olympic Winter Games - Torino, Italy
 2010 - XXI Olympic Winter Games - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
 2014 - XXII Olympic Winter Games - Sochi, Russia
 2018 - XXIII Olympic Winter Games - Pyeongchang, South Korea
 2022 - XXIV Olympic Winter Games - Beijing, China
 2026 - XXV Olympics Winter Games - Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy

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