Winter Games

Chamonix, France. Retroactively designated the first Winter Olympic Games...

St Moritz, Switzerland. Thaw wrecked the schedule as Sonja Henie won at 15...

Lake Placid, USA. Pack style rules and the Eddie Eagan summer and winter double...

Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany. Alpine skiing debuted under Nazi rule...

St Moritz, Switzerland. First postwar Winter Games, with Germany and Japan excluded...

Oslo, Norway. First Winter Games in a capital city, lit by a flame from Morgedal...

Cortina, Italy. First televised Winter Games as the USSR debuted on top...

Squaw Valley, USA. A resort built from scratch for the Games...

Innsbruck, Austria. Snow shortage forced the army to haul winter to the Tyrol...

Grenoble, France. Jean Claude Killy swept alpine skiing before home crowds...

Sapporo, Japan. First Winter Games in Asia, 32 years after losing 1940...

Innsbruck, Austria. Denver rejected the Games, so Innsbruck hosted again...

Lake Placid, USA. The Miracle on Ice and the Eric Heiden five gold sweep...

Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Balkan Winter Games, eight years before war engulfed the city...

Calgary, Canada. Eddie the Eagle and the Jamaican bobsled charmed the world...

Albertville, France. The last Winter Games of a summer year...

Lillehammer, Norway. First Winter Games off the old four year cycle...

Nagano, Japan. NHL stars played Olympic hockey for the first time...

Salt Lake City, USA. A pairs judging scandal produced double golds...

Turin, Italy. Italian winter returned after half a century...

Vancouver, Canada. The hosts won a record 14 golds, starting with Bilodeau...

Sochi, Russia. The most expensive Games ever staged...

PyeongChang, South Korea. North and South marched together in the cold...

Beijing, China. First city to stage both Summer and Winter Games...