{"id":41007,"date":"2023-02-20T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snowtrex.de\/magazin\/?p=41007"},"modified":"2025-06-26T14:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:38:05","slug":"winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snowtrex.co.uk\/magazine\/events\/winter-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics – disciplines and venues"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Winter Olympics take place every four years. Athletes compete in seven sports and 15 disciplines at the Winter Olympics, competing for the Olympic medals of gold, silver and bronze. In the article below, SnowTrex<\/a> presents the sports and disciplines of the Winter Olympics and offers an overview of all previous venues.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The 1960 Winter Olympics were held in Squaw Valley in the state of California. The Alpine skiing competitions were held at the Palisades Tahoe ski resort.<\/div>\n <\/div > \n

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\n Venues of the Winter Olympics<\/span><\/a>The sports and disciplines of the Winter Olympics<\/span><\/a>1. Biathlon<\/span><\/a>2. Bobsleighing<\/span><\/a>3. Curling<\/span><\/a>4. Ice hockey<\/span><\/a>5. Ice skating<\/span><\/a>6. Luge<\/span><\/a>7. Skiing<\/span><\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Venues of the Winter Olympics<\/h2>\n

The Winter Olympics were first held in the French ski resort of Chamonix<\/a> in 1924, but were only subsequently recognised in 1926. This was followed by St. Moritz in Switzerland in 1928. The continuous four-year cycle has only been interrupted twice since then: In 1944, the Games did not take place due to World War 2, and in the 1990s the cycle was adjusted.<\/p>\n

Until 1992, the Summer and Winter Olympic Games were held in the same year. After 1992, this was to be changed for commercial reasons and not least because of the demands of television. Therefore, the next Winter Olympics were held in 1994, followed four years later in 1998. To date, the United Kingdom has never hosted the Winter Olympics. Germany was host only in 1936 and 1940 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Germany’s planned bid for 2022 in Munich failed due to citizens’ disapproval: in all four referendums in Munich, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the districts of Traunstein and Berchtesgaden, the population voted narrowly against a bid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Year<\/strong><\/th>Town<\/strong><\/th>Country<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1924<\/td>Chamonix<\/a><\/td>France<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1928<\/td>St. Moritz<\/a><\/td>Switzerland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1932<\/td>Lake Placid<\/td>USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1936<\/td>Garmisch-Partenkirchen<\/a><\/td>Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1940<\/td>Garmisch-Partenkirchen<\/a><\/td>Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1944<\/td>--<\/td>--<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1948<\/td>St. Moritz<\/a><\/td>Switzerland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1952<\/td>Oslo<\/td>Norway<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1956<\/td>Cortina d\u2019Ampezzo<\/a><\/td>Italy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1960<\/td>Palisades Tahoe (bis 2021 \"Squaw Valley Ski Resort\")<\/td>USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1964<\/td>Innsbruck<\/a><\/td>Austria<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1968<\/td>Grenoble<\/td>France<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1972<\/td>Sapporo<\/td>Japan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1976<\/td>Innsbruck<\/a><\/td>Austria<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1980<\/td>Lake Placid<\/td>USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1984<\/td>Sarajevo<\/td>Bosnia-Herzegovina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1988<\/td>Calgary<\/td>Canada<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1992<\/td>Albertville<\/td>France<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994<\/td>Lillehammer<\/td>Norway<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/td>Nagano<\/td>Japan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/td>Salt Lake City<\/td>USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>Turin<\/td>Italy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>Vancouver<\/td>Canada<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/td>Sochi<\/td>Russia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>Pyeongchang<\/td>South Korea<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022<\/td>Beijing<\/td>China<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2026<\/td>Milan and Cortina d\u2019Ampezzo<\/a><\/td>Italy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

The sports and disciplines of the Winter Olympics<\/h2>\n

A total of seven sports are contested at the Winter Olympics in 15 different disciplines. A discipline, also referred to as an event, is a single type of competition within a sport. A prerequisite for a winter sport to be recognised as Olympic by the IOC (International Olympic Committee) is the extensive operation of that sport in at least 25 countries and on three continents.<\/p>\n

1. Biathlon<\/h2>\n
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In the biathlon, the athletes not only have to be in good shape for cross-country skiing but also have to be accurate.<\/div>\n <\/div > \n

The biathlon is cross-country skiing combined with shooting competitions and is contested in individual, mass start, sprint, pursuit and relay events. The biathlon has been an Olympic sport since 1960. Its precursor was the military patrol, which was held as a competition at the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix.<\/p>\n

The biathlon competitions at a glance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Current competitions<\/strong><\/th>Olympic since (year)<\/strong><\/th>Men\/Women<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
15 km single<\/td>1992<\/td>Women<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20 km individual<\/td>1960<\/td>Men<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12.5 km mass start<\/td>2006<\/td>Women<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15 km mass start<\/td>2006<\/td>Men<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7.5 km mass start<\/td>1992<\/td>Women<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10 km sprint<\/td>1980<\/td>Men<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10 km pursuit<\/td>2002<\/td>Women<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12,5 km pursuit<\/td>2002<\/td>Men<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4 x 6 km relay<\/td>2006<\/td>Women<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4 x 7.5 km relay<\/td>1968<\/td>Women\/Men<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2 x 6 km\/ 2 x 7.5 km mixed relay<\/td>2014<\/td>Mix<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

2. Bobsleighing<\/h2>\n

Bobsleighing takes place in a sports sledge in an ice canal.<\/p>\n

Bobsleigh<\/h3>\n\n
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