History of the winter olympics

The fisrt Winter Olimpic games where held in 1942 in Chamonix, France. Sincxe then each 4 years we have The winter olympic games. The first gold medal at the first Winter Olimpic games went to speed skater Charles jewtraw of United Stestes. he earned medals in all five speed skating events. The Canadian ioce hokey team won all five of their matches, outsocring the oponents 110 to 3. IN that first Olympic Games 16 natioons participated bringing 258 athletes (11 woman and 247 men ) to compete in all the events After 50 years of loymjpic games we are on the 210 Winter olympic games in Vancuver 2010. During Vancuver 2010 Olympic Winter Games we now count aproximlly 2500 athletes. this 2500 athletes will be competing in 15 sporrts and an overall of 86 separte medal events.

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Summer Olympics

The summer Olympics are the oldest sports. They started in Greece in 1896 when only men did sports; there were a total of 241 men. since then different sports had been added to the summer Olympics to make them better. Summer Olympics have made tourism increase for the country hosting them. Lots of people from other countries come to see the Olympics take place. The last summer Olympics took place in Beijing, China. Lots of people came to see their countries represent them with joy. The next Olympic will be in 2012 in London England. This country will be the first one to host the Olympics three times. Then it will be in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil making it the first South American country to host an Olympic.

The Summer Olympic Games or Games of the Olympiad are an international multi-sport event occurring every four years since 1896. Medals are awarded in each event, with gold medal for first place, silver medal for second place, and bronze medal for third place. The games contain 300 events with over 10,000 competitors from 205 different nations. The United States of America is the country with more times hosting the Olympics.

Some of the most common sports that take place in the summer Olympics are athletics, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, and swimming. Those sports have always been in the Olympics. Other sports like basketball, baseball. Croquet, cricket, diving, softball, table tennis, rackets, polo, golf, football, volleyball, etc. Those have been added through time to make the Olympics bigger and more interesting for truism.

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Winter Olympics Overall

The first Winter Olympics was held in Chamonix in France in 1924. The Winter Olympics are every four years. In this event there are the traditional events like skating and ice hockey. These games have undergone significant changes since its inception. "The raising of television as a global medium for communication has enhanced the profile of the Games."This means the Winter games are mostly seen by television rising the rating of television as source of communication system. Too it has created an income because of the broadcast rights and advertising, which has become very popular and great for the Internacional Olympics Committee (IOC). The Winter Olympics have created a great attraction for sponsors to influence the game, and too for television companies to advertise the games.

The Games too have had internal scandals, one of the makor scandals was the use of performance enhancing drugs by Winter Olympians, there has been one political boycott of the Winter Olympics. Other internal conflict is the one of the Nations using the Winter Games for their own political ends, and to showcase the claimed superiority of their political systems.

The Winter Olympics have been hosted in three continents but never in the Winter Olympics history in the southern hemisphere. The united States have hosted the Olympics four times, France has hosted three times, Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Norway, and Switzerland have hosted two times, and in 2014 Sachi will host the Winter Olympics and it will be the first Russian city to host this Games.

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