There have been 21 Winter Olympics:
Chamonix, France 1924
St Moritz, Switzerland 1928
Lake Placid, New York, USA 1932
Garmisch Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany 1936
St Moritz, Switzerland 1948
Oslo, Norway 1952
Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy 1956
Squaw Valley, California, USA 1960
Innsbruck, Austria 1964
Grenoble, France 1968
Sapporo, Japan 1972
Innsbruck, Austria 1976
Lake Placid, New York, USA 1980
Sarajevo, Yugoslavia 1984
Calgary, Alberta, Canada 1988
Albertville, France 1992
Lillehammer, Norway 1994
Nagano, Japan 1998
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 2002
Turin, Italy 2006
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2010
The Winter Olympics have never been held in Africa.
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The Winter Olympics have never been held in England. The 1908 and 1948 Summer Games were held in England and the upcoming 2012 Summer Games will be held in England.
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The Modern Olympics trace their roots back to Greece. There have been thirty Summer Olympics and 22 Winter games held during the Modern era.
As of 2008, one Winter Olympics has been held in Canada and that was the 1988 Games in Calgary, Alberta. The 2010 Games, to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia will be Canada's second.Canada has also hosted one Summer Olympics, that being the 1976 Games in Montreal.The Winter Olympics has been held twice in Canada.Once in Calgary, in 1988, and once in Vancouver, in 2010.The Summer Olympics was also held in Canada once, in Montreal in 1976.
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).
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27 Summer Olympics, 3 were canceled. 20 winter Olympic games, 2 were canceled. The major difference in numbers is because the summer Olympics started in 1896, while the winter Olympics started in 1924.
3 ... 1924 in Chamonix, 1968 in Grenoble, and 1992 in Albertville.