What is Winter Olympic Games?
[[File:Winter olympics all cities.svg|right|250px]] '''Winter Olympic Games''' were originally considered to be linked with the nation hosting the [[Summer Olympic Games]]. The country holding the summer games was preferred as the host for the winter games.<ref>Organizing Committee of the XIIth Olympiad. (1940). [http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1940/OR1940.pdf ''Report of the Organizing Committee on Its Work for the XIIth Olympic Games of 1940 in Tokyo Until the Relinquishment,'' p. 127 <nowiki>[151 of 207 PDF]</nowiki>]; {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080626081911/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1940/OR1940.pdf |date=2008-06-26 }} retrieved 2012-7-25.</ref> Since 1948, the locations of summer and winter games have developed independent of each other. * 1924 - [[1924 Winter Olympics|I Olympic Winter Games]] - [[Chamonix]], [[France]] * 1928 - [[1928 Winter Olympics|II Olympic Winter Games]] - [[St. Moritz]], [[Switzerland]] * 1932 - [[1932 Winter Olympics|III Olympic Winter Games]] - [[Lake Placid, New York]], [[United States]] * 1948 - [[1948 Winter Olympics|V Olympic Winter Games]]<ref>The [[1940 Winter Olympics]] and the [[1944 Winter Olympics]] were [[wikt:cancel|cancelled]] because of [[World War II]].</ref> - [[St. Moritz]], [[Switzerland]] * 1952 - [[1952 Winter Olympics|VI Olympic Winter Games]] - [[Oslo]], [[Norway]] * 1956 - [[1956 Winter Olympics|VII Olympic Winter Games]] - [[Cortina d'Ampezzo]], [[Italy]] * 1960 - [[1960 Winter Olympics|VIII Olympic Winter Games]] - [[Squaw Valley, California (Ski Area Valley)|Squaw Valley]], [[California]], [[United States]] * 1964 - [[1964 Winter Olympics|IX Olympic Winter Games]] - [[Innsbruck]], [[Austria]] * 1968 - [[1968 Winter Olympics|X Olympic Winter Games]] - [[Grenoble]], [[France]] * 1972 - [[1972 Winter Olympics|XI Olympic Winter Games]] - [[Sapporo]], [[Japan]] * 1976 - [[1976 Winter Olympics|XII Olympic Winter Games]] - [[Innsbruck]], [[Austria]] * 1980 - [[1980 Winter Olympics|XIII Olympic Winte