The first time winter sports were included in the Olympic movement was in 1908 when figure skating was part of the London summer games.
Ice Hockey was part of the 1920 Antwerp games before the city of Chamonix in France hosted the first ever Winter Olympics four years later in 1924.
The winter version of the Olympics ran in the same year as the summer ones for the next 68 years before the 1994 Lillehammer games in Norway separated the two to be run two years apart but still every four years.
The most recent Winter Olympics held in Salt Lake City in the United States saw more than 200 athletes from 70 countries compete.
The 2010 Winter Olympics will be held in Vancouver, Canada.
| Past Winter Olympics | |
| Year | Host City/Country |
| 1924 | Chamonix, France |
| 1928 | St Moritz, Switzerland |
| 1932 | Lake Placid, United States |
| 1936 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany |
| 1940 | Sapporo, Japan |
| 1944 | Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy (cancelled WWII) |
| 1948 | St Moritz, Switzerland |
| 1952 | Oslo, Norway |
| 1956 | Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy |
| 1960 | Squaw Valley, United States |
| 1964 | Innsbruck, Austria |
| 1968 | Grenoble, France |
| 1972 | Sapporo, Japan |
| 1976 | Innsbruck, Austria |
| 1980 | Lake Placid, United States |
| 1984 | Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina (Formerly Yugoslavia) |
| 1988 | Calgary, Canada |
| 1992 | Albertville, France |
| 1994 | Lillehammer, Norway |
| 1998 | Nagano, Japan |
| 2002 | Salt Lake City, United States |
| 2006 | Torino, Italy |
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