There are two years between the summer and winter games.
There are two years between the summer and winter games.
The Winter Games are about 1½ years after the Summer Games; the Summer Games are about 2½ after the Winter Games.
Summer games= 4 years Winter games= 2 years
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There is an Olympic games every two years. But it alternates between summer and winter Olympics.
Every 2 years, alternating between summer and winter games.
The Olympics are held every 4 years. The Winter Olympics and the Summer Olympics are separted by two years, but, it's every 4 years. The next Winter Olympics will be in 2014, and 2018. The next Summer Olympics (after 2012) will be in 2016 and 2020.
The Summer and Winter Olympic Games are every 4 years. However there are other Olympic games during the period between so atheletes can keep in training and pick the best for the competition.
This is not true. The summer games happen every four years and so do the winter games. Example: Summer Games:2012 Winter Games: 2014 etc...
The summer and winter games used to be held the same year, every four years. The IOC decided to let the winter and summer games be stand alone events and alternate them every two years (still leaving 4 years between each summer games and each winter games). The choice was either to have 2 years between winter games or 6 years between games. In some sports, 6 years can be the entire length of an athletes career, so that would eliminate some athletes from ever having the opportunity to compete in the games. It also wouldn't hurt the bottom line to hold more games instead of less games.
Instead of holding both Olympics in the same year, starting in 1994 the Winter and Summer Olympics are now held two years apart. The next Winter Olympics will be held in 2010 and the next Summer Olympics will be held in 2012.
The four years between two summer games or between two winter games is called an olympiad. Note that the summer and winter games are separated by two years, e.g. 2008 Beijing, then 2010 Vancouver and then 2012 London.