Canada has hosted the Winter Olympics twice: in 1988 in Calgary, Alberta and in 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia. They won 2 gold medals in 1988; 14 gold medals in 2010 for a total of 16 gold medals as Winter Olympic hosts.
Unfortuanately, Canada, has never won a gold metal while the Olympics were held in Canada. Hopefully Canada can get one in Vancouver!
The Canada women's Olympics ice hockey team members took home the gold medal, while the United States of America women's Olympics ice hockey team members won the silver medal, and the Switzerland women's Olympics ice hockey team took the bronze medal.
USA Squaw Valley 1960; USA Lake Placed 1980; Canada Vancouver 2010.
Jim Thorpe
Michael Phelps won 4 Gold and 2 Silver and while the most medals for the 2012 Olympics it was his worst performance at the Olympics. His total medal count is 22 with 18 Gold medals for the 3 Olympic games he has been in
Mohamed Farah of Great Britain won the gold medal, Paul Kipkemoi Chelimo of the United States won the silver medal, and Hagos Gebrhiwet of Ethiopia won the silver medal. Chelimo was reinstated from his lane infringement violation so was awarded the silver medal while Gebrhiwet was pushed back to the bronze medal position and Bernard Lagat fell to 5th place because Canada' Mohammed Ahmed was also reinstated.
Countries don't win the Olympics. The purpose is to promote the competition between skilled athletes of all nations without boundries. While there is always a nationalistic pride and the 'medal count' is often featured, there is no 'winning country' in the Olympics.
Abebe Bikila was an Ethiopian marathon runner. At the 1960 Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal while running the marathon barefoot.
Canada won 5 medals at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary Alberta: 2 silver and 3 bronze. They won 26 medals at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C.: 14 gold, 7 silver and 5 bronze.
In 1988 the Summer Olympics were held in Seoul, South Korea while the Winter Olympics were held in Calgary, Canada. 160 nations participated in the summer and 57 participated in winter.
From 1928 Amsterdam Olympics to 1956 Melbourne Olympics India won six consecutive gold medals at hockey. The two other gold medals for India came in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the 1980 Moscow Olympics
Because instead of having both the Summer and Winter Olympics in the same year, every 4 years, they decided to alternate every 2 years. So the Winter Olympics were held in 1992 and then again in 1994 while the Summer Olympics were not held again until 1996.