Olympics

The 2016 Summer Olympics were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from August 5 to August 21, 2016.

The Olympics were originally held in Olympia, Greece

Larissa Latynina of the Soviet Union with 9 in the 1956, 1960, and 1964 Games.

Sawao Kato of Japan won 8 gold medals in the 1968, 1972, and 1976 Games.

Several gymnasts have won 7.

The ancient Greek Olympic games were to honor Zeus and sportsmanship.

Yes, 1.

Through the 2010 Games in Vancouver, Spain has won 2 Winter Olympic medals (1 gold, 1 bronze),

The colors of the rings in the Olympic flag do not represent any continent or country. The colors represent the colors found in the flags of the nations that compete in the Olympic Games.

During world conflict, no. The times the Olympic Games were cancelled was in 1916 during World War I and 1940 and 1944 during World War II.

there are 4 years in between the 'summer' Olympics, and then, 2 years later, the winter Olympics. e.g. the Olympics in 2008, the winter Olympics in 2010 and then the Olympics in 2012 and so-on.

30 -- (9 Gold, 9 Silver, 12 Bronze)

Prior to 1992 both summer and winter Olympics were held in the same calendar year. After that year it was decided that the winter Olympics should be held in the off two years from the summer Olympics so in 1994 the winter Olympics were held in Lillihammer, Norway just two years after the previous winter Olympics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Olympic_Games

Dave Peterson, who was also the head coach of the 1992 U.S. Men's Olympic ice hockey team.

The medalists in the 1988 Winter Olympic men's downhill: Gold - Pirmin Zurbriggen of Switzerand - 1:59.63

Silver - Peter Müller of Switzerland - 2:00.14

Bronze - Franck Piccard of France - 2:01.24

Curling.

The men's team won at the 1924 Games in Chamonix and the women's team won at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City. And, actually, it was 78 years. After 1924, curling was not an Olympic event again until 1998.

There have been 21 Winter Olympics:

Chamonix, France 1924

St Moritz, Switzerland 1928

Lake Placid, New York, USA 1932

Garmisch Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany 1936

St Moritz, Switzerland 1948

Oslo, Norway 1952

Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy 1956

Squaw Valley, California, USA 1960

Innsbruck, Austria 1964

Grenoble, France 1968

Sapporo, Japan 1972

Innsbruck, Austria 1976

Lake Placid, New York, USA 1980

Sarajevo, Yugoslavia 1984

Calgary, Alberta, Canada 1988

Albertville, France 1992

Lillehammer, Norway 1994

Nagano, Japan 1998

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 2002

Turin, Italy 2006

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2010

Alberto Tomba won in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary in 1988

According to the IOC's official website, Norway held the 1994 Winter Olympics in 1994. The country has also held the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo. This was the same year the Summer Olympics were in Helsinki, Finland.

The founder of the modern Olympic Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, originally designed the symbol in 1913

Actually, what actually happened was that some people found the sign carved on a piece of rock and thought that the Greek actually came up with the symbol. Baron Pierre de Coubertin introduced the rings and just made up the colors for the rings

The first ancient Olympic Games were held in Greece and the first modern Olympic Games were also held in Greece.

1964 Summer Games in Tokyo.

Nepal sent six athletes to the 1964 Summer Games to compete in athletics and boxing.

The olympic games were held in honour of Zeus, king of the Greek gods. He and the other gods lived on Mount Olympus

The Olympic Games were a series of athletic competitions held for held in honor of Zeus because they want some thing to do and to honor their gods. According to Greek Mythology, Hercules started the games in celebration of his defeating and killing King Augeas and his sons, because Augeas did not give Hercules his promised reward after Hercules had cleaned the king's stables. After the original games, they were repeated every four years.

As this site is biased towards the US I take it you mean ice hockey. The gold medal was won by the Soviet Union, the silver by Czechoslovakia and the bronze by Sweden. If however you mean field hockey. In the men's competition the gold was won by Pakistan, the silver by West Germany and the bronze by Great Britain. In thee women's competition the gold was won by Netherlands, the silver by West Germany and the bronze by USA. The nine medals were won by eight different countries, three of which no longer exist. Two have broken up, Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia and one has merged West Germany with East Germany to form the united Germany.

There are no winter Olympics in 2016. Winter Olympics are held every four years on a two-year offset from the summer Olympics; the last one was in 2014, and the next one will be in 2018.

The 2015 Summer Games still have a week or so to go, but the US is currently leading with gold medals in 26 events. Second place is currently Great Britain with 16, with China (15) hot on their heels. The US is also leading the overall medal count at 70, with China in second place with 46.

Men's Parallel Giant Slalom -

Gold - Philipp Schoch, Switzerland
Silver - Simon Schoch, Switzerland
Bronze - Sigi Grabner, Austria

Women's Parallel Giant Slalom -

Gold: Daniela Meuli, Switzerland
Silver: Amelie Kober, Germany
Bronze: Rosey Fletcher, United States

Men's Halfpipe -

Gold: Shaun White, United States
Silver: Danny Kass, United States
Bronze: Markku Koski, Finland

Women's Halfpipe -

Gold: Hannah Teter, United States
Silver: Gretchen Bleiler, United States
Bronze: Kjersti Buaas, Norway

Men's Boardercross -

Gold: Seth Wescott, United States
Silver: Radoslav Židek, Slovakia
Bronze: Paul-Henro De Le Rue, France

Women's Boardercross -

Gold: Tanja Frieden, Switzerland
Silver: Lindsey Jacobellis, United States
Bronze: Dominique Maltais, Canada