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=Welcome to the Haultain Winter History Page= return to the Haultain main page = = = Fun, Interesting and Informative Winter Olympic Facts =

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(Source of the five facts: http://www.aircanada.com/en/onair/february2010/eng-can-2/top5.html
 * ===The first winter Olympic games were held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. Ms. B===
 * The last Olympic gold medals that were made entirely out of gold were awarded in 1912.
 * ==== Waldi, the dachshund. Very popular in Bavaria, but he also possesses qualities which are indispensable to an athlete: resistance, tenacity and agility. These are among the reasons he was chosen to be the mascot. He was dressed in pastel colors to express the gaiety and joy of the Olympic festival. ====
 * ====During the first several modern Olympics, the marathon was always an approximate distance. In 1908, the British royal family requested that the marathon start at the Windsor Castle so that the royal children could witness its start. The distance from the Windsor Castle to the Olympic Stadium was 42,195 meters (or 26 miles and 385 yards). In 1924, this distance became the standardized length of a marathon.====
 * ====There are over 13,000 athletes that compete at the Summer and Winter Olympics in 33 different sports and nearly 400 events.BY.crayola and freewilly====
 * ==== The **Olympic Flame** or **Olympic Torch** is a [|symbol] of the [|Olympic Games].[|[1]] Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek god [|Zeus] by [|Prometheus], its origins lie in [|ancient Greece], where a fire was kept burning throughout the celebration of the [|ancient Olympics][//[|citation needed]//]. The fire was reintroduced at the [|1928 Summer Olympics] in [|Amsterdam], and it has been part of the modern Olympic Games ever since. The [|torch relay] of modern times which transports the flame from Greece to the various designated sites of the games had no ancient precedent and was introduced by [|Carl Diem] at the controversial 1936 [|Berlin Olympics].[|[2] [|]] ====
 * Canada hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada. http://archives.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/topics/1322-7946/
 * 1) **Chamonix, France (1924)**When the first Olympic Winter Games were held in this rugged mountain town in the French Alps in 1924, they were called International Sports Week 1924.
 * 2) **St. Moritz, Switzerland (1928 and 1948)**As you make figure eights at the St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink, you’re skating on the hallowed ice where the ice hockey, speed skating and figure skating events were held during the 1948 Winter Games. These were significant Games the first to be celebrated after World War II.
 * 3) **Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy (1956)**This picture-perfect Alpine town, with cobbled streets set amid the jagged Dolomites.
 * 4) **Sapporo, Japan (1972)**The 1972 Winter Games put Sapporo on the winter sports map.
 * 5) **Lake Placid, New York (1932 and 1980)** Host to two previous Olympic Winter Games and home to numerous national training facilities.

Winter Olympic History Timeline by ovechkin
 * 1) **1926,February 1** Amsterdam
 * 2) **1936,,****February 6** Garmisch-Parteh Kivchen, Germany
 * 3) **1952,February 14** Oslo,Norway
 * 4) **1932,February 4** ** Lake Placid New york U.S.A **
 * 5) **1948,November 30** ** St.Moritz,Switzerland **
 * 6) **1956 January 26** Cortinad'Ampezzo,Italy

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