Winter Summer Games

Winter Olympics is an international winter sports event, which is held every four years. It is an exclusive event for the sports played on ice or in cool weather and has a large number of sportsperson from different countries of the world as participants. This competition has participants from a lesser number of countries as only the cold countries have the practice of organizing winter sports.

The Winter Olympics was developed from the earlier Nordic Games, which also was a competition of the winter sports and used to be held every four years. It was held for the first time in the year 1924 in Chamonix in France and since then has been held regularly except for the World War II years. Some of the major venues, which have held the Winter Olympics till date, are as follows:

Several games, most of which are played on the snow, are parts of the Winter Olympics. There have also been a few demonstration events or a few discontinued events. Some of these are listed below: