What is the Winter Olympics?

Winter Olympics is a sporting event held every four years with many sports, this is an event organized by the International Olympic Committee.

Winter Olympics is a sporting event held exclusively for winter sports, played on ice or snow like figure skating, skiing .

Just like the Summer Olympics, each National Olympic Committee in each country selects the typical athletes for that country to compete with athletes in other countries. In each sporting event, the first place will win the Gold Medal, the second place with the Silver Medal and the third place with the Bronze Medal.

This year's Winter Olympics were held in PyeongChang, South Korea.

The Winter Olympics has fewer countries participating in the Summer Olympics, mainly due to climate conditions, as there are many countries near the equator with no conditions to practice seasonal sports. east.

Like the Summer Olympics, the United States is the country that has held the Winter Olympics most often with four times, most recently in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2002. France has three times organized The Winter Olympics, while Austria, Canada, Italy, Japan, Norway and Switzerland won this honor twice. Germany, Russia and Yugoslavia once held this conference; Korea and China will hold the first Winter Olympics in 2018 and 2022.

The three cities that have held twice the winter games are: Lake Placid, New York, St. Moritz of Switzerland and Innsbruck of Austria.

The most recent Winter Olympics held in Sochi (Russia) in 2014 and the 2018 Winter Olympics will be held in Pyeongchang (South Korea) . On July 31, 2015, China's Beijing capital was chosen to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.