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 threat of terrorism has marred the lead up to the Winter Olympics.

Innsbruck is an internationally renowned winter sports centre, and hosted the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics as well as the 1984 and 1988 Winter Paralympics.

The Games were the first to be held in a different year from the Summer Olympics, the first and only one to be held two years after the previous winter games, and the most recent to be held in a small town.

The United States has hosted eight Olympic Games, four Summer and four Winter, more than any other nation.

Boycott The Winter Games have had only one national team boycott when Taiwan decided not to participate in the 1980 Winter Olympics held in Lake Placid.

They were the third Olympic Games and second winter Olympics to be held in Japan, after the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.

The Jamaica national bobsled team was once a serious contender in the Winter Olympics, beating many well established teams.

There was a sharp increase in positive drug tests at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2002 Winter Olympics.

However, at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, NBC drew the lowest ratings for any Summer or Winter Olympics since 1968.

Seven months later she would earn a silver in track cycling at the Summer Games in Seoul, to become the only athlete to win medals in both a Summer and Winter Olympics in the same year.

By the Grenoble Games, Brundage had become so concerned about the direction of the Winter Olympic Games towards commercialisation that, if it could not be corrected, he felt the Winter Olympics should be abolished.

In addition to the United States, nations hosting multiple Winter Games are France with three, while Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Japan, Canada and Italy have hosted twice.

He scored one of the goals in the game, which would eventually be one of many.

Cross country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping, and speed skating have been featured at every Winter Olympics program since its inception in 1924.

He's watching the Olympics.

She was a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Miami.

Maybe one of them will make it to the Olympics.

It's like the Olympics of food products.

Are you coming to Rio for the Olympics?

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Sixty five countries boycotted the 1980 summer Olympics.

It was the first Winter Olympics to be held outside Europe and North America, and only the third game (summer or winter) held outside those regions over all, after Melbourne (1956 Summer Olympics) and Tokyo (1964 Summer Olympics).

Atlanta's main rivals were Toronto, whose front running bid that began in 1986 seemed almost sure to succeed after Canada had held a successful 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, and Melbourne, Australia, who hosted the 1956 Summer Olympics and felt that the Olympic Games should return to Australia.

And let the next Olympics save some lives.

He is one of the British hopefuls for the London Olympics.

Are you going to come to Rio de Janeiro in August during the Olympics?

We do it for fun, or as Olympians, or as professionals.

Japan has been sending athletes to the Olympics since 1912.

This post is part of our special coverage London 2012 Olympics.

I am really fed up with winter.

We were invited to create a massive installation at the Vancouver 2010 winter Olympics, were used in Vancouver, got to control the lighting on the C.N. Tower, the Canadian Parliament buildings and Niagara Falls from all the way across the country using their minds.

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The results of these efforts were mixed ratings for the 2006 Winter Games were significantly lower than those for the 2002 Games, while there was a sharp increase in viewership for the 2008 Summer Olympics, and the 2012 Summer Games became the most watched event in US television history.

Some of the 2016 Olympic events will be held in a neighborhood called Deodoro.

The streets of Turin were covered with red posters announcing the slogan of the Olympics.

Daisuke Nakata, a trampolinist who has competed in the Olympics in the past, is from Ishikawa.

Terrorism and violence Three Olympiads had to pass without a celebration of the Games because of war the 1916 Games were cancelled because of World War I, and the summer and winter games of 1940 and 1944 were cancelled because of World War II.

Sports In 1936 it was the site of the Winter Olympic Games, the first to feature alpine skiing.

Fishing in the winter?

Homs this winter.

Winter has gone.

I hate winter.

Winter has come.