Winter sports or winter activities are competitive sports or non-competitive recreational activities which are played on snow or ice. Most are variations...
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Olympic sports are sports that are contested in the Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games. The 2024 Summer Olympics included 32 sports; the 2022...
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The Winter Olympic Games (French: Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced...
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Paralympic sports comprise all the sports contested in the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games. As of 2020, the Summer Paralympics included 22 sports and 539...
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The 2026 Winter Olympics (Italian: Olimpiadi invernali del 2026), officially the XXV Olympic Winter Games (Italian: XXV Giochi olimpici invernali) and...
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eight nations in the Winter Olympics. The Winter Olympic program has grown this time with the addition of 11 new events. While sports that were already on...
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An International Winter Sports Week is a multi-sport event of winter sports with a program spanning consecutive days longer than a weekend which includes...
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for national and international winter sports events after the Olympics, leading to Salt Lake City hosting the 2034 Winter Olympics. Salt Lake City was chosen...
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were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. Originally held in association with the 1924 Summer Olympics, the sports competitions...
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Special Olympics World Games (redirect from Special Olympics World Winter Games)
Special Olympics athletes can compete in 32 Olympic-style summer or winter sports. The athletes are adults and children with intellectual disabilities...
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both the Summer and Winter Olympics, as of the end of the 2024 Summer Olympics. Prior to the 1924 Winter Olympics, the winter sports of Figure skating and...
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The 2022 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games (Chinese: 第二十四届冬季奥林匹克运动会; pinyin: Dì Èrshísì Jiè Dōngjì Àolínpǐkè Yùndònghuì)...
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facilities that were built for these Winter Olympics helped the host region to turn into the heart of Canada's elite winter sports program, under the tutelage...
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The Winter Sports Palace is an ice hockey arena in Sofia, Bulgaria. Opened in 1982, it has a capacity of 4,600 spectators. Winter Sports Palace on hockeyarenas...
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Winter sports in the United States are popular, both professionally and recreationally. Most sports activity on ice and snow takes place in the northern...
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were gold. The 1984 Winter Olympics, considered a success, made it possible to further modernize Sarajevo and develop winter sports in Yugoslavia, but...
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Winter Sports 2: The Next Challenge, known in Europe as Winter Sports 2009: The Next Challenge, is a multi-sport simulation released in 2008 for the Xbox...
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The 2018 Winter Olympics (Korean: 2018년 동계 올림픽, romanized: Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (French:...
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Sport in Germany (redirect from Winter sports in Germany)
Jürgens and Anja Huber. Biathlon has become one of the most popular winter sports in Germany in recent years, and enjoys some of the highest TV ratings...
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was accompanied by increased government funding for winter sports, the creation of the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia and the purchase of an alpine...
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Ski and winter sports in Slovakia are very prominent and popular given the mountainous topography of the region and the fact that much of the country...
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The Winter Paralympic Games is an international multi-sport event where athletes with physical disabilities compete in snow and ice sports. The event includes...
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federations and also provides sports services - such as advertising, sponsorship and hospitality. It represents all seven Olympic winter sport federations, several...
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Sport in Switzerland (redirect from Winter sports in Switzerland)
popular sports. Major sporting events in Switzerland include the Olympic Games, which were held two times in St. Moritz in Winter 1928 and Winter 1948,...
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Greenwood Press. p. 290. ISBN 0-313-32278-3. "1928 Sankt Moritz Winter Games". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved...
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The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games (Russian: XXII Олимпийские зимние игры, romanized: XXII Olimpiyskiye zimniye...
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Goodwill Games (category TNT Sports (United States))
The Goodwill Games were an international sports competition created by Ted Turner in reaction to the political troubles surrounding the Olympic Games of...
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of the Torino 2006 Winter Olympics at US$4.4 billion in 2015-dollars and cost overrun at 80% in real terms. This includes sports-related costs only,...
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Deaflympics (redirect from Winter Deaflympic Games)
The following sports have been contested in a Summer Deaflympic Games programme: The following sports have been contested in a Winter Deaflympic Games...
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Olympic Games (section Winter Games)
world's leading international sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate...
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