Winter Olympic Games

Yes, the most recent death was Luger Nodar Kumaristashvili, who died in a practice run before the 2010 winter Olympic games officially started.

The countries entered the stadium in alphabetical order (Italian alphabetical order) with the exception of Greece--first country in as the traditional founder of the Olympic games--and Italy, the host country which came in last.

Greece has participated in every Summer Olympics and most Winter Olympics. In total Greece has 108 medals ( 30 gold, 42 silver, 36 bronze) , all at the Summer Olympics.

4 gold metals

According to a February 19, 2010 National Post / Financial Post article the Canadian Olympic Committee awarded "prizes of $20,000 for gold, $15,000 for silver and $10,000 for bronze medals at the 2010 Vancouver Games... The prizes apply to each member of a team." There was further discussion of the prize money being taxable.

The winter Olympics were held in France in the following years:

1924 - Chamonix, France

1968 - Grenoble, France

1998 - Albertville, France

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Dr. B.

Yes both males and females can compete in downhill skiing.

Bears hibernate, and moisture is collected for a slow drip during the spring thaw.

The Winter Olympic Games, and sledding.

Romania sent a team of 101 athletes (40 men and 61 women) to participate in the 2008 Games in Beijing. They won 8 medals (4 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze).

There are no Winter Olympics in 2008. The next Winter Olympics will be in 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

There is no maximum age for swimming in the Olympics, however, certainly the younger one is the faster they can swim as a general rule. The 2008 U.S. Olympic swimming team's oldest member is 41 year old Dara Torres who won the national competition in the 100 meter freestyle. The 2008 Games will be Torres fifth ... she has won 4 gold, 1 silver, and 4 bronze in the 1984, 1988, 1992, and 2000 Games.

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I am pretty sure the youngest you can be is 15 years old. :)

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

Canada spent about 1.5 billion Canadian dollars

they warmed up with a healthy diet!

In the 2010 Olympic games, Canada won 14 gold medals, 7 silver medals and 5 bronze medals, for a total of 26 Olympic medals for the Canadian team. They came in third place behind Germany with 30 medals, and USA with 37 medals.

Although it was already gaining popularity in the 1980s, it was only in the 1999 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan that it became a part of the quadrennial event.
Snowboarding's first year in the Olympics was in 1998 at Nagano, Japan.
it came to the Olympics in 1898 feb 28

As of the 2008 Games, the United States has held 8 Olympic Games, 4 Summer and 4 Winter. Summer - 1904 - St. Louis

1932 - Los Angeles

1984 - Los Angeles

1996 - Atlanta Winter - 1932 - Lake Placid

1960 - Squaw Valley

1980 - Lake Placid

2002 - Salt Lake City

1972 - Sapporo (XI Olympic Winter Games) 1998 - Nagano (XVIII Olympic Winter Games)

Apolo Ohno with 7. Apolo was born in Seattle and was taught how to Speedskate in Vancouver Canada.

Apolo Ohno's mother is American and his father is Japanese.

The first Winter Olympic games were held in 1924 in Chamonix, France.

United States has won 13 gold medals in men's competition and 7 gold in women's.