Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Winter_Olympic_Games> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 95 of
95
with 100 items per page.
- Winter_Olympic_Games abstract "The Winter Olympic Games (French: Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international sporting event that occurs once every four years. Unlike the Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics feature sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympics, the 1924 Winter Olympics, was held in Chamonix, France. The original 5 sports (broken into 9 disciplines) were bobsleigh, curling, ice hockey, Nordic skiing (consisting of the disciplines military patrol, cross-country skiing, Nordic combined, and ski jumping), and skating (consisting of the disciplines figure skating and speed skating). The Games were held every four years from 1924 until 1936, after which they were interrupted by World War II. The Olympics resumed in 1948 and was again held every four years. Until 1992, the Winter and Summer Olympic Games were held in the same years, but in accordance with a 1986 decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to place the Summer and Winter Games on separate four-year cycles in alternating even-numbered years, the next Winter Olympics after 1992 was in 1994.The Winter Games has evolved since its inception. Sports and disciplines have been added and some of them, such as Alpine skiing, luge, short track speed skating, freestyle skiing, skeleton, and snowboarding, have earned a permanent spot on the Olympic programme. Others (such as curling and bobsleigh) have been discontinued and later reintroduced, or have been permanently discontinued (such as military patrol, though the modern Winter Olympic sport of biathlon is descended from it). Still others, such as speed skiing, bandy and skijoring, were demonstration sports but never incorporated as Olympic sports. The rise of television as a global medium for communication enhanced the profile of the Games. It created an income stream, via the sale of broadcast rights and advertising, which has become lucrative for the IOC. This allowed outside interests, such as television companies and corporate sponsors, to exert influence. The IOC has had to address several criticisms, internal scandals, the use of performance enhancing drugs by Winter Olympians, as well as a political boycott of the Winter Olympics. Nations have used the Winter Games to showcase the claimed superiority of their political systems.The Winter Olympics has been hosted on three continents by eleven different countries. The United States has hosted the Games four times (1932, 1960, 1980, 2002); France has been the host three times (1924, 1968, 1992); Austria (1964, 1976), Canada (1988, 2010), Japan (1972, 1998), Italy (1956, 2006), Norway (1952, 1994), and Switzerland (1928, 1948) have hosted the Games twice. Germany (1936), Yugoslavia (1984), and Russia (2014) have hosted the Games once. The IOC has selected Pyeongchang, South Korea, to host the 2018 Winter Olympics. No country in the southern hemisphere has hosted or even been an applicant to host the Winter Olympics; the major challenge preventing one hosting the games is the dependence on winter weather, and the traditional February timing of the games falls in the middle of the southern hemisphere summer.Twelve countries – Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States – have sent athletes to every Winter Olympic Games. Six of those – Austria, Canada, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the United States – have earned medals at every Winter Olympic Games, and only one – the United States – has earned gold at each Games. Germany and Japan have been banned at times from competing in the Games.".
- Winter_Olympic_Games thumbnail Olympic_rings_without_rims.svg?width=300.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink ?id=TbLmQQG-2bQC&pg=PA151&dq=taiwan+winter+olympics+boycott.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink OoPMx.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink 1924.pdf.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink albertville-1992-winter-olympics.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink calgary-1988-winter-olympics.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink chamonix-1924-winter-olympics.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink cortina-d-ampezzo-1956-winter-olympics.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink fr.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink garmisch-partenkirchen-1936-winter-olympics.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink grenoble-1968-winter-olympics.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink innsbruck-1964-winter-olympics.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink innsbruck-1976-winter-olympics.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink lake-placid-1932-winter-olympics.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink lake-placid-1980-winter-olympics.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink lillehammer-1994-winter-olympics.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink nagano-1998-winter-olympics.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink oslo-1952-winter-olympics.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink salt-lake-city-2002-winter-olympics.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink sapporo-1972-winter-olympics.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink sarajevo-1984-winter-olympics.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink sports.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink squaw-valley-1960-winter-olympics.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink st-moritz-1928-winter-olympics.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink st-moritz-1948-winter-olympics.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink turin-2006-winter-olympics.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageExternalLink vancouver-2010-winter-olympics.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageID "34069".
- Winter_Olympic_Games wikiPageRevisionID "604649612".
- Winter_Olympic_Games above "Winter Olympic Games".
- Winter_Olympic_Games bodyclass "hlist nowraplinks".
- Winter_Olympic_Games caption "The Olympic flame in Sochi".
- Winter_Olympic_Games caption "during the 2014 Winter Olympics".
- Winter_Olympic_Games data "* 1924 * 1928 * 1932 * 1936 * 1940 * 1944 * 1948 * 1952 * 1956 * 1960 * 1964 * 1968 * 1972 * 1976 * 1980 * 1984 * 1988 * 1992 * 1994 * 1998 * 2002 * 2006 * 2010 * 2014 * 2018 * 2022 * 2026".
- Winter_Olympic_Games data "* Alpine skiing * Biathlon * Bobsleigh * Cross‑country skiing * Curling * Figure skating * Freestyle skiing * Ice hockey * Luge * Nordic combined * Short track speed skating * Skeleton * Ski jumping * Snowboarding * Speed skating".
- Winter_Olympic_Games group "nb".
- Winter_Olympic_Games hasPhotoCollection Winter_Olympic_Games.
- Winter_Olympic_Games header "Games".
- Winter_Olympic_Games header "Sports".
- Winter_Olympic_Games headerstyle "border-top: 1px solid #aaa".
- Winter_Olympic_Games image "150".
- Winter_Olympic_Games image File:Opening_of_XXII_Winter_Olympic_Games_(2338-13).jpg.
- Winter_Olympic_Games name "IOCMilitaryPatrol".
- Winter_Olympic_Games subject Category:Olympic_Games.
- Winter_Olympic_Games subject Category:Recurring_sporting_events_established_in_1924.
- Winter_Olympic_Games subject Category:Winter_Olympic_Games.
- Winter_Olympic_Games subject Category:Winter_sports.
- Winter_Olympic_Games type Abstraction100002137.
- Winter_Olympic_Games type Act100030358.
- Winter_Olympic_Games type Activity100407535.
- Winter_Olympic_Games type Contest107456188.
- Winter_Olympic_Games type Diversion100426928.
- Winter_Olympic_Games type Event100029378.
- Winter_Olympic_Games type Game100456199.
- Winter_Olympic_Games type PsychologicalFeature100023100.
- Winter_Olympic_Games type SocialEvent107288639.
- Winter_Olympic_Games type Sport100523513.
- Winter_Olympic_Games type WinterOlympicGames.
- Winter_Olympic_Games type WinterSports.
- Winter_Olympic_Games type YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity.
- Winter_Olympic_Games comment "The Winter Olympic Games (French: Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international sporting event that occurs once every four years. Unlike the Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics feature sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympics, the 1924 Winter Olympics, was held in Chamonix, France.".
- Winter_Olympic_Games label "Giochi olimpici invernali".
- Winter_Olympic_Games label "Jeux olympiques d'hiver".
- Winter_Olympic_Games label "Jogos Olímpicos de Inverno".
- Winter_Olympic_Games label "Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno".
- Winter_Olympic_Games label "Olympische Winterspelen".
- Winter_Olympic_Games label "Olympische Winterspiele".
- Winter_Olympic_Games label "Winter Olympic Games".
- Winter_Olympic_Games label "Zimowe igrzyska olimpijskie".
- Winter_Olympic_Games label "Зимние Олимпийские игры".
- Winter_Olympic_Games label "ألعاب أولمبية شتوية".
- Winter_Olympic_Games label "冬季オリンピック".
- Winter_Olympic_Games label "冬季奥林匹克运动会".
- Winter_Olympic_Games sameAs Zimní_olympijské_hry.
- Winter_Olympic_Games sameAs Olympische_Winterspiele.
- Winter_Olympic_Games sameAs Χειμερινοί_Ολυμπιακοί_Αγώνες.
- Winter_Olympic_Games sameAs Juegos_Olímpicos_de_Invierno.
- Winter_Olympic_Games sameAs Neguko_Olinpiar_Jokoak.
- Winter_Olympic_Games sameAs Jeux_olympiques_d'hiver.
- Winter_Olympic_Games sameAs Olimpiade_Musim_Dingin.
- Winter_Olympic_Games sameAs Giochi_olimpici_invernali.
- Winter_Olympic_Games sameAs 冬季オリンピック.
- Winter_Olympic_Games sameAs 동계_올림픽.
- Winter_Olympic_Games sameAs Olympische_Winterspelen.
- Winter_Olympic_Games sameAs Zimowe_igrzyska_olimpijskie.
- Winter_Olympic_Games sameAs Jogos_Olímpicos_de_Inverno.
- Winter_Olympic_Games sameAs m.086px.
- Winter_Olympic_Games sameAs Q82414.
- Winter_Olympic_Games sameAs Q82414.
- Winter_Olympic_Games sameAs Winter_Olympic_Games.
- Winter_Olympic_Games wasDerivedFrom Winter_Olympic_Games?oldid=604649612.
- Winter_Olympic_Games depiction Olympic_rings_without_rims.svg.
- Winter_Olympic_Games homepage sports.
- Winter_Olympic_Games isPrimaryTopicOf Winter_Olympic_Games.