Check out the list of Olympic Games sports , as well as discontinued and demonstration sports. The largest sporting event in the world is the Olympic Games , but there are many other multi-sport games. To see what's coming up, check out the calendar of major sporting events. Any comments, suggestions or corrections? Please let us know. Grenoble was the second French city to host the Winter Games, holding the event in Coincidentally, Norway won the highest number of medals in both the and games.
Albertville became the third city in France to host the Winter Games in , with 1, athletes competing in 57 events. In Canada, Calgary hosted the games, while Vancouver hosted the games. In Japan, Sapporo was the first to host the winter games in , followed by Nagano in Oslo and Lillehammer are the only two Norwegian cities to host the games in and , respectively.
Switzerland and Austria have also hosted the Winter Olympic Games twice, each time in the same respective city. Moritz, Switzerland hosted the and Winter Games, the first city to hold the event twice.
Innsbruck, Austria became the second city to hold the games twice after hosting the and Winter Games. A number of cities have hosted the winter olympics more than once.
These cities are St. In fact, Alexander Cushing, a lawyer, was the only inhabitant and homeowner in the whole place when it was selected to host the Olympics.
The Olympics held a lot of firsts. It was the only Winter Games not to include a bobsleigh competition due to a lack of participation. It is also where French skier Jean Vuarnet became the first to win a medal using metal skis instead of wooden ones.
It was the first Games to utilize snow machines to create artificial snow to ensure the best possible conditions for its events. American speed skater Eric Heiden became the first person in Olympic history to win five gold medals in individual events at the same Games when he set records in all five speed skating events from m all the way up to 10,m.
Los Angeles was the only city to bid, and thus picked, to host the Summer Olympics. After a United States-led boycott of the Moscow Olympics, the Soviet Union unsurprisingly organized a revenge boycott in Despite the 14 nations who stayed away, National Olympic Committees took part, which was a record at the time.
It is also where the first paraplegic athlete took part in a medal event when archer Neroli Fairhall of New Zealand competed in a wheelchair. For the first time in the history of the Olympics, all recognized National Olympic Committees participated. Athletes from a record-breaking 79 countries won medals at the Atlanta Olympics, and 53 countries took home gold.
Unfortunately, this historic Games was marked by tragedy when a terrorist bomb exploded in the Centennial Olympic Park, killing two people and injuring more. Originally, the winning bid for the Games was scheduled to be announced in mid However, after a number of cities withdrew from bidding for both the Winter Olympics and the Summer Olympics, the International Olympic Committee decided to jointly award the and Games in July The first Olympics to be hosted in the United States was in the summer of , making it the first time the Games were held outside of Europe.
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