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Where were the 2010 Olympic Games held?
Vancouver, Canada
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The only athlete to win Gold at both the Winter and Summer Olympics
Eddie Eagan
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Which Asian country has won the most medals at the Winter Olympics?
Japan with 484
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What is the oldest sport in the Winter Olympics?
Figure Skating, actually first contested in the Summer of 1908 prior to the Creation of the Winter Olympics
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Where will the next Summer Olympics be held?
Tokyo, Japan
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How many Winter Olympic Games have there been?
24. These are the 24th Winter Olympics
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This Canadian athlete has participated in 3 winter Olympics in speed skating and two summer Olympics for cycling and has brought home 1 gold, 1 silver, and four bronze medals
Clara Hughes
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Which country hold the record for the most Gold Medals won at one Winter Olympics? How many did they win
Canada won 14 Gold Medals at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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This popular sport never caught on in in the Winter Olympics, it last appeared in 1952 but you can still see them mushing In the Alaskan Iditarod.
Dog Sledding
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This bob sled team made a big splash at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary spawning a movie starring Canadian actor John Candy
Jamaican bob sled team – movie Cool Runnings
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When and where will the next Winter Olympics be held?
2022 Beijing, China
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Three team mates are tied for most medals of any Canadian Olympian, what sport did they participate in?
Jayna Hefford, Caroline Ouellette, and Hayley Wickenheiser, each have 4 gold medals in Ice Hockey
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How many times has Canada hosted the Winter Olympics and in which cities?
1988 - Calgary and 2010 - Vancouver
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This discontinued sport was the precursor to the biathalon
What is Military Patrol
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In 2014 the Olympic relay brought the torch to this place?
Space - by Russian Cosmonaughts
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How many countries are participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics?
92 - up from 88 in Sochi. This year does not include Russia.
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This home grown figure skater has won gold at 4 world series but never saw the Olympic podium in 1988 (finishing 8th overall), 1992 (6th) and 1994 (5th),
Kurt Browning, landed the first ratified quadruple jump (a toe loop) in competition for the 1988 Olympics, and was a torch bearer in 1994.
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This country far outpaces the competition in speed skating at 105 total medals, 35 of them being gold
Netherlands
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The half pipe event was added in 1998 and is not performed with skiis but this.
What is a Snowboard
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Which sports league has prevented their signed athletes from participating in these Olympics?
NHL
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In what year and in what city were the first Winter Olympic Games held?
1924, in the city of Chamonix France. The first modern Olympics took place in 1896 in Athens, Greece.
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With 13 Medals (8 Gold, 4 silver, and 1 Bronze) this athlete reigns supreme at the winter Olympics in Biathlon (A combination of Cross country skiing and Rifle Shooting)
Norway’s Ole Einar Bjørndalen
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These two countries were among the top in most medals won for the Winter Olympics for many years after they no longer existed
USSR (194-3rd). East Germany (110-10th)
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Curling stones were once just simple smooth boulders but are now made of granite and weigh about this much.
between 38 and 44 pounds (17.24 and 19.96 kg)
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What were the original 5 sports (broken into 9 disciplines) of the first Winter Olympic Games?
Bobsleigh, Curling, Ice Hockey, Nordic skiing, and Skating