Winter Olympics Games

Winter Olympics is an international winter sports event, similar to the Olympic Games in structure. Just like the Olympics Games, also known as the Summer Games, Winter Olympic Games are also held every four years. This multi-sports event held during the winter time features winter sports that are played on ice and snow. Attended by a large number of sportsperson from different countries of the world as participants, this competition has lesser as compared to the Summer Games, 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:

• Chamonix
• St.Moritz
• Cortina d'Ampezzo
• Innsbruck
• Nagano
• Oslo
• Salt Lake City
• Sapporo
• Sarajevo
• Turin

The 2010 Winter Olympics will consist of 15 sports within which there will be a total of 86 medal events. Organized at 10 different venues the games will be held in 4 different cities i.e. in Vancouver, West Vancouver, Richmond and Whistler in Canada. The sports included in the 2010 schedule are:

• Alpine Skiing
• Biathlon
• Bobsleigh
• Figure Skating
• Free Style Skiing
• Ice Hockey
• Luge
• Cross-Country Skiing
• Curling
• Nordic combined
• Snowboarding
• Ski Jumping
• Skeleton
• Short Track Speed Skating
• Speed Skating