Winter Olympic Games. (When and Where?).

WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES

The modern Olympic Games began in 1896 and have been held every four
years except during the two world wars. Separate Winter Olympic Games
started in 1924 and until 1994 were held in the same year as the Summer
Olympics. To focus more attention on the Winter Games, it was decided
that beginning in 1994, the Winter Games would be held on a different
four-year cycle. Check out the dates and places on the chart.

YEAR  Site of Winter Games             Site of Summer Games

1924  Chamonix, France                 Paris, France
1928  St. Moritz, Switzerland          Amsterdam, Netherlands
1932  Lake Placid, New York, U.S.      Los Angeles,
                                       California, U.S.
1936  Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany  Berlin, Germany
1948  St. Moritz, Switzerland          London, England
1952  Oslo, Norway                     Helsinki, Finland
1956  Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy         Melbourne, Australia
1960  Squaw Valley, California, U.S.   Rome, Italy
1964  lnnsbruck, Austria               Tokyo, Japan
1968  Grenoble, France                 Mexico City, Mexico
1972  Sapporo, Japan                   Munich, Federal
                                       Republic of Germany
1976  Innsbruck, Austria               Montreal, Canada
1980  Lake Placid, New York, U.S.      Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.
1984  Sarajevo, Yugoslavia             Los Angeles,
                                       California, U.S.
1988  Calgary, Canada                  Seoul, South Korea
1992  Albertville, France              Barcelona, Spain
1994  Lillehammer, Norway
1998  Nagano, Japan.
2002  Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
2006  Turin, Italy

Summer Games no longer held in the same year.

QUESTIONS

1. When was the last time that Summer and Winter Olympic Games were held in the same year? __________

2. Most Winter Olympic Games have been held in Europe. Which continent ranks second? __________

3. Why are there no Games listed for 1940 and 1944? __________

4. How many of the same-year Summer and Winter Olympic Games were held on different continents? __________

5. In what year and in what place did the U.S. national ice hockey team defeat the top-ranked Soviet team? Later that year the U.S. boycotted the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. __________

6. When Sarajevo was the site of the Winter Olympic Games, where were the Summer Games held? __________

7. When London, England, was the site of the Summer Games, where were the Winter Games held? __________

8. Winter Olympic Games were held on two separate years in Lake Placid, New York, and St. Moritz, Switzerland. Name the third city where Winter Olympic Games were held twice? __________

9. Where were the first Winter Olympic Games of the new four-year cycle held? __________

10. Judging by the list of Winter Olympic sites, what appears to be essential for such sites? __________

ANSWERS

1. 1992

2. North America

3. World War II was raging

4. Nine (1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, and 1988)

5. 1980--Lake Placid, New York

6. Los Angeles, California

7. St. Moritz, Switzerland

8. Innsbruck, Austria (1964, 1976)

9. Lillehammer, Norway

10. winter weather and winter sports facilities