how long was snowboarding apart of the olympics?
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Since 1998 (Nagano).  New events were added in 2002.
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Haha, honestly I think these Olympics have been pretty boring and "eventless", but here are a few things that happened...\n\nShaun White dominated snowboarding...some ski coach got in a car crash or sumthing...Canadian womens hockey team won gold and allowed like only 2 goals the whole tourny.....gretchen bleiler is mad hott....this lady in luge crashed and blanked out.....that skier Bode guy didnt win a medal yet....and that one Jakobellis girl screwed up on the last jump in the snowboard x and ended up getting silver
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They have a team of about 40.  Some of the sports include snowboarding, skating and skiing.
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Here are all the winter olympics year\n\n1924 : 16\n1928 : 25\n1932 : 17\n1936 : 28\n1948 : 28\n1952 : 30\n1956 : 32\n1960 : 30\n1964 : 36\n1968 : 37\n1972 : 35\n1976 : 37\n1980 : 37\n1984 : 49\n1988 : 57\n1992 : 64\n1994 : 64\n1998 : 72\n2002 : 77\n2006 : 80
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Greece and Australia  (The US boycotted the Olympics in 1980 due to the Soviet invasion of Afganistan in 1979)
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no way! come on get a life. olympics come once every 2 years and winter olympics come once every 4 years! try something new. look at skeliten or downhill ski racing instead.
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The new age record for the winter olympics will be set in Torino by Scott Baird from Minnesota and will compete in curling.  He is aged 54 and 282 days.  Before the Torino games, the oldest winter olympic athlete was James Coates who at the 1948 Winter Games the age of 53 and 328 days.  He competed in the skeleton, finishing seventh.
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The Olympics are staggered 2 years apart.  The last summer Olympics were in 2004, winter 2006, next summer Olympics will be 2008, next winter Olympics will be 2010.
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Snowboarding was invented by skateboarders who were bored (no pun indeed) during the winter months. I think it first started late 80's, early 90's
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It was there from the beginning.  in fact, hockey was first played at the summer olympics in 1908, before there even was a winter olympics.
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No.\n\nThe sites for Winter Olympics are:\n1924 - Chamonix, France\n1928 - St Moritz, Switzerland\n1932 - Lake Placid, USA\n1936 - Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany\n1940 - Sapporo, Japan - St Moritz - Garmisch-Partenkirchen - CANCELLED\n1944 - Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy - CANCELLED\n1948 - St Moritz\n1952 - Oslo, Norway\n1956 - Cortina d'Ampezzo\n1960 - Sqaw Valley, USA\n1964 - Innsbrück, Austria\n1968 - Grenoble, France\n1972 - Sapporo\n1976 - Denver - Innsbrück\n1980 - Lake Placid\n1984 - Sarajevo, Yugoslavia\n1988 - Calgary, Canada\n1992 - Haute Savoie, France\n1994 - Lillehammer, Norway\n1998 - Nagano, Japan\n2002 - Salt Lake City, USA\n2006 - Torino, Italy\n2010 - Vancouver, Canada\n2014 - Almaty, Kazakhstan OR Borjomi, Georgia OR Jaca, Spain OR Pyeong Yang, China OR Salzburg, Austria OR Sochi, Russia OR Sofia, Bulgaria (to be announced in 2007)
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i found myself picking up snowboarding faster than skiing. by picking up, i mean i felt ready to take on the more intermmediate/advanced runs after a day or two of the bunny slopes. one board and 2 turns (backside and frontside) was a lot less to deal with than 2 poles and 2 skis and limbs flailing around in different directions. moguls are harder on a snowboard and more fun on skis. flatter runs are more frustrating on a snowboard. getting off the ski lift seems easier on skis
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1972: Rhodesia out of Olympics\nRhodesia has been thrown out of the Olympic Games with just four days to go before the opening ceremony in Munich, Germany. \nThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted by 36 to 31 with three abstentions to recommend Rhodesia's expulsion in the face of mounting international pressure. \n\nTwo days ago the National Olympic Committees of Africa threatened to pull out of the games unless Rhodesia was barred from competing. \n\nBTW ... South Africa was tossed out in 1964
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As was already mentioned, the IOC decides where the games will be held.\n\nYou also asked about future games.  They are:\n\n2008 Summer Games -- Beijing\n2010 Winter ames -- Vancouver, BC, Canada\n2012 Summer Games -- London, England
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You should have said NO back in 2001 when the IOC voted democratically (one member, one vote except for those IOC members from the countries still in the running) to give the 2008 Games to Beijing. In other words, you've rather missed the boat by about 5 years.
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Seems like you're a few decades behind!  I'm not sure of the exact date, but the world used to host the Olympics every four years, and both Summer and Winter Games would be in the same year.  \n\nFor example, during the Cold War, the 1980 Olympics were held in Lake Placid (winter) and in Moscow (summer) later that year.  There was some controversy because the Easterners (Russia, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, etc.) talked about boycotting the Lake Placid games, and President Carter talked about retrobuting by boycotting the Moscow games.  Something like that.  \n\nAnyways, since then, the schedule has changed, and the Olympics are every two years.  The seasonal games, like the summer games, are held every 4 years.  The schedule is: Beijing 2008(summer), Vancouver 2010(winter), and London 2012(summer).  Check out the links below for more info. (there are links to each of the sites from olympic.org)
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The Winter 2005 Special Olympics drew more than 1,800 athletes from 84 countries. \n\n7,000 athletes are expected at the Winter 2007 Special Olympics.