Winter olympic game fact

The Beijing Games will feature seven new winter Olympic events. The newly-added events include the womens monobob, freestyle skiing big air mens and womens , and mixed team events in short track speed skating team relay, ski jumping, freestyle skiing aerials and snowboard cross.

The United States will send almost 80 athletes to compete in Beijing, including some familiar faces. Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin will look to add to her medal haul at her third Olympics. Shiffrin won gold in Sochi, and added two more medals in PyeongChang. Snowboarding star Chloe Kim will compete in her second Olympics after making history at the PyeongChang Games as the youngest competitor to win gold on halfpipe.

In addition to her Olympic gold, Kim is also a six-time X Games gold medalist. Olympic athletes, team staff and journalists that will attend the Beijing Olympics are required to be vaccinated against COVID or be subject to a day quarantine, according to the International Olympic Committee.

Exceptions to the vaccination rule will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, based on medical reasons. Team USA wont have to worry, though, after the U.

Olympic and Paralympic Committee announced it would require all athletes, coaches and staff to be vaccinated before Beijing. Beijing is the first city ever to host both the summer and winter Olympic Games. The Summer Olympics were also held in Beijing. In total, 13 venues, split between the zones of Beijing, Zhangjiakou and Yanqing , will be used during the 17 days of the Games.

One new venue, the National Speed Skating Oval, was built in Beijing, and existing venues are being renovated for the Games. Read More. Here are some fun, crazy, and intriguing facts about the Winter Olympics. It was held in the same year as the Summer Olympic Games, which continued until There are multiple events within each category, but there are only 15 main events.

They are:. There are 10 countries that rise to the top as having the most medals, they are:. Note: The medal counts are correct as of February 7, According to the Olympic website , the medals for the Winter Olympics "range in weight from grams for the gold medal to grams for the bronze Figure skating returned along with ice hockey in April as part of the Summer Olympics program in Antwerp.

Both sports shifted to the Winter Olympics when they debuted in While equestrian events have been a long-time staple of the Summer Olympics, horses were also present at the Winter Games in the skijoring event in which competitors on skis raced each other as they were towed by riderless horses.

Skijoring was a demonstration sport, so no medals were awarded, and the sport never returned to the Olympics. Canines, however, appeared during the Lake Placid Winter Games as part of the demonstration sport of sled dog racing. While much coverage has been given to the anomaly of holding the Winter Olympics in the subtropical resort city of Sochi, Russia, a lack of snow in normally frosty Innsbruck threatened the Games.

Called to action, the Austrian army scaled nearby snow-capped mountains and carted more than 50, cubic yards of snow to the ski courses and 20, blocks of ice to the luge and bobsled tracks. The soldiers packed down the snow and ice with their hands and feet. During the St. Moritz Winter Games, a freak heat spell drove temperatures up over 70 degrees by the end of the kilometer cross-country race.