The Winter Olympics
- In Numbers...
The Winter Olympics in Numbers...
The number of ice hockey players who lived in Britain when the team won Olympic gold in 1936.
All members of the squad lived in Canada and ironically they beat the Canadians in the final, ending
their 12 year domination of the event.
The position in the total medals table of Austria.
The cost in dollars of the nasal spray bought by Alain Baxter that ultimately cost
him the bronze medal in the men's Slalom at the 2002 Salt Lake City games.
The number of times the games have been held outside of Europe and North America - 1972 in Sapporo
and 1998 Nagano, both in Japan.
The number of Olympic flames burning at the Innsbruck games in 1976 to denote the 2nd time
that the event had been held in the Tyrolean city.
The number of cities who have hosted the games more than once - St Moritz (Switzerland),
Innsbruck (Austria) and Lake Placid (USA).
The number of alpine titles won by Toni Sailer at the 1956 games in Cortina, the Winter Olympics
first clean sweep.
The position the Italian two-man bobsleigh team finished at the 1964 games after they loaned
an axle bolt to the British team of Dixon and Nash. The gold medal winners ? Dixon and Nash !
The number of downhill skiers who have won gold on home snow,
Austrian Egon Zimmermann in Innsbruck 1964,
French legend Jean-Claude Killy four years later in Grenoble
and of course, Franz Klammer's epic run, again at Innsbruck in 1976.
The number of consecutive games that Europe hosted the event between 1936 and
1956, a record that is unlikely to be broken with the IOC now looking to rotate
between continents. Will any other continent apart from Europe, North America or Asia
ever host it ? It would certianly be novel to have a Winter Olympics held in the
southern hemisphere during our summer.
The number of winter olympics hosted by the USA, more than any other country.
The number of gold medals, and also Olympic records, that American speed skater Eric Heiden
claimed at the the Lake Placid games as he completed a clean sweep of his events, from 500m to 10,000m.
The number of teams wanting to compete in the bobsleigh event at the 1960 games.
The number was deemed too low so the event was cancelled for the only time.
The number of gold medals that Great Britain have won since the 1st games.
The number of years between Innsbruck holding the event, in 1964 and 1976.
The reason for such a short interval ? They stepped in again for the 1976 games after the original
choice, Denver in the USA, had to pull out for financial reasons.
The number of events in the first ever winter Olympic games.
The position the Jamaican bobsleigh team finished at the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, incredibly beating
the likes of France, USA, Italy and Russia. The team had crashed on their Olympic debut in 1988
(famously walking to the finish line with their sled) and struggled at the 1992 games, but their hard
work was rewarded in Norway.
The number of countries who competed in the first Winter Olympics -
Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Latvia,
Norway, Poland, Switzerland, Sweden, USA and Yugoslavia.
The number of points scored by Torville and Dean for artistic impression at the 1984 Sarajevo games
following their interpretation of Ravel's Balero. The points represented a perfect score.
The number of years since Austria or Switzerland, the Winter Olympics' two most successful nations,
last hosted the games - Innsbruck back in 1976.
The number of years it took for Great Britain to win a medal again in the 4-man bobsleigh
having won it at the 1936 games. In 1998 they took bronze at the Nagano games thanks to the efforts
of Sean Olsson, Dean Ward, Courtney Rumboldt, and Paul Attwood.
The distance Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards jumped at the Calgary games. It might have been 45 metres
behind gold medalist Matti Nykanen but it was still a British record.
The number of athletes who competed in the first Winter Olympics.
The year in which the figure skating events is held outdoors for the last time.
The last olympics to be held in the same year as the summer Olympics.
The number of blocks of ice brought down from high altitude by the Austrian Army for
the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck after unseasonally high temperatures had brought
rain to the area, causing panic and chaos in the build up.
The number of m3 of snow brought in by the Austrian army for the same reason as the
20,000 blocks of ice.
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