The USA has hosted 8 Olympic games, 4 Summer Olympics (1904 St Louis, 1932 Los Angeles , 1984 Los Angeles, 1996 Atlanta) and 4 Winter Olympics (1932 Lake Placid, 1960 Squaw Valley, 1980 Lake Placid, 2002 Salt Lake City)
The Winter Olympics have been held in the US four times: Lake Placid, New York (1932 & 1980); Squaw Valley, California (1960); Salt Lake City, Utah (2002).
Australia has never hosted the Winter Olympics. It's difficult to host the Winter Olympics in the Southern Hemisphere because it is summer when the games are traditionally played (February)
8 times
That was the 1952 Winter Games in Oslo and in 1994 we had the Winter Games in Lillehamar, (a city in Norway)
Summer: 1964. Winter:1972 and 1998.
Yes. The winter games have been held twice in Innsbruck (1964 and 1976)
Currently, only the host of the 2012 Summer Olympics is known. It will be held in London, England. The host of the 2016 Summer Olympics will be selected next year (2009). The host of an Olympic Games is selected 7 years before the Games are held. The 2010 Winter Olympics will be held in Vancouver, Canada and the 2014 Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia. The host of the 2018 Winter Olympics will be selected in 2011.
Yes, Canada has played host to the Olympic Games twice. These times were: The 1976 Summer Games, held in Montreal, Quebec The 1988 Winter Games, held in Calgary, Alberta In 2010, Vancouver, British Columbia will hold the Olympic Winter Games making Canada a host country for the third time.
The first Asian host of the Winter Olympics was the city of Sapporo in Japan which hosted the 1972 Games
Japan has hosted one Summer Games and two Winter Games.Tokyo hosted the Summer Games of 1964.Sapporo hosted the Winter Games of 1972.And Nagano hosted the Winter Games of 1998.Notably, Japan had been chosen to host a few more games. Both Tokyo and Sapporo were supposed to host games in 1940, but that was before they went on a wartime footing--the games were originally moved then called off altogether because too much of the world was involved in World War II.
The 2014 Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia.
The City of Nagano, Japan was the host for the 1998 Winter Olympics.
The 8th Winter Games were held in Squaw Valley in 1960.