Winter Olympic Games

Participation: 77 National Olympic Committees (Nations) 2,399 athletes (886 women, 1,513 men) 78 events 22,000 volunteers 8,730 media (2,661 written press, 6,069 broadcasters)

witch countries compete in the winter Olympics 2010

The first event of the first Winter Olympics (1924) was the 500 meter speed skating race, won by US skater Charles Jewtraw.

After being gold-less in both the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary!!

Canada won The Most Gold Medals despite USA winning the most medals!!

Canada won 14 Gold Medals!!

Two of them are the Most Important Gold Medals we've won!! HOCKEY (both men and women)

See You In Sochi

There were no 1962 Olympics.

In 1960 Rome, Italy held the Summer Games and Squaw Valley, California, USA held the Winter games.

The 1964 games were hosted by Toyko, Japan for the Summer and Innsbruck, Austria for the Winter games.

I don't think there were any Olympic games in 1995. However in 1996 they were held in Atlanta, USA.

The Winter Olympic Games last for only 16 days. During these 16 days there are 300 hundred events and 35 sports.

Speed skating is based on skating for speed, not style. Figure skating is the opposite, as it skates for style and not always speed.

Speed skating requires:

-Lower cut boot, almost like a shoe

-Longer blades than artistic skaters

-the objective is to go fast, not to impress the judges

Figure skating:

-based on competing in a number of levels and elements

-consists of jumps, spins and footwork

-artistry and difficulty are considered when judging

-higher cut boot

-regular length blade, but with a toe pick and edges

Through the 2006 Games in Turin, 3.

1) 2002 Games in Salt Lake City - Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat won gold in Ice Dancing.

2) 1932 Games in Lake Placid - Andrée Brunet-Joly and Pierre Brunet won gold in Mixed Pairs.

3) 1928 Games in St. Moritz - Andrée Brunet-Joly and Pierre Brunet won gold in Mixed Pairs.

The 1998 Winter Olympics were held from February 7th through 22nd in Nagano, Japan. 2,176 participants from 72 nations competed in 68 events. Germany won the most gold medals as well as the highest total of medals. Norway was second, in both cases.

America has won 104 medals in total in the 2012 Olympics.

46 Gold Medals.

29 Silver Medals.

29 Bronze Medals.

You can also find a list of the medal count for London 2012 in the related link.

The last Olympic Games (as of June, 2014) were held in Sochi, Russia. The opening ceremony for the XXII Olympic Winter Games was on February 7, 2014, and the closing ceremony was held on February 25, 2014.

The WINTER Olympics this year are in Vancouver.

At the 2010 Games in Vancouver, no.

There is one sport that is for men only and that is ski jumping. The International Olympic Committee refused to schedule women's ski jumping at the 2010 Games. Their reasoning was that there was not enough interest and there are not enough countries with world class women ski jumpers. The IOC was taken to court over this in Canada but were not made to include women in ski jumping events as the presiding judge ruled that, while the exclusion of women was discriminatory, the Canadian courts have no control over the International Olympic Committee.

Look for women's ski jumping to be included in the events at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.

Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne. The word soaring is also used for the sport.

The US won 9 gold, 9 silver, and 7 bronze for a total of 25 medals in the 2006 Games in Torino.

The last Winter Olympics held in the United States was in 2002 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The United States with 44.

The ancient Olympics began in the year 776 BC in Greece. The modern Olympics began in 1896 also in Greece.

The reason that skiers get sun burned in winter is because of the reflective properties of the snow. The snow absorbs very little of the suns rays and reflects them back. The intensity of the suns rays make it very easy for exposed skin to get burned.as well as ice skating ice's reflective properties as well can have rays reflect and burn skin.

The pants are made by a company called Loudmouth Golf based out of Britain.

Here's a link to the red/blue/white pants:

http://prostores1.visioncourse.com/servlet/loudmouthgolf_uk/Detail?no=14

Here's the more subdued red/white/grey pants they've worn in other games:

http://prostores1.visioncourse.com/servlet/loudmouthgolf_uk/Detail?no=10

Both of those sites are for shipping to Europe, but you can go back to the main Loudmouth site for shipping to North America.

Charley Jewtraw of the United States.

The first ever event held in the Winter Olympics was the men's 500 meter speed skating event on January 26, 1924.

Jewtraw won gold in a time of 44.0 seconds, Oskar Olsen of Norway won silver in a time of 44.2 seconds, and Roald Larsen of Norway and Clas Thunberg of Finland tied for the bronze in a time of 44.8 seconds.

In the winter Olympics in Nagano in 1998, US women won four (4) gold medals. Three (3) individual gold medals and a team gold for the ice hockey. (The total of gold medals won by Americans was six. US men won two (2).)

*Skeleton, Bobsleigh, Alpine Skiing (*downhill and *giant slalom), Figure Skating, Ice Hockey, Curling, Snowboard (Snowboard Cross and *Halfpipe), Freestyle Skiing (*Moguls and Ski Cross), Speed Skating (*Speed Skating 500m, Short Track *1,000m, Short Track Relay) Ski Jumping (*Individual Hill, *Team Large Hill) and Dream Events of most of the following plus Snowball Fight and Gliding. Note: *notes non dream events.