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The Second World War interrupted the celebration of the Winter Olympics. The 1940 Winter Olympics had originally been awarded to Japan, and were supposed to be held in Sapporo, but Japan had to give the Games back in 1938, because of the Japanese invasion of China in the Sino-Japanese War. Subsequently, St. Moritz, Switzerland was chosen by the IOC to host the 1940 Winter Olympics, but three months later the IOC withdrew St. Moritz from the Games, because of quarrels with the Swiss organisation team. Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the hosts of the previous games, stepped in to organise the Games again, but the Games were cancelled in their entirety in November of 1939 because Germany had invaded Poland two months before.
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NBC has signed venerable skating analyst Dick Button, a fixture of Winter Games TV when the Olympics were carried on ABC, to join Tom Hammond, Scott Hamilton, Sandra Bezic and Andrea Joyce on skating. Button will ... be one of the co-hosts of "Olympic Ice,'' a daily behind-the-scenes look at the skating competition that will air on USA.
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These maps for the 1964 Winter Olympics are the only known post-war oil company maps of Innsbruck. Esso's cover includes a sketch of an Innsbruck landmark and makes no use of the Olympic rings. A Freytag-Berndt map of the city at 1:15,000 locates the seven main Olympic sites (and seven Esso stations, by coincidence). The reverse includes a regional map, and 1:75,000 district maps of Seefeld and Innsbruck/Lizum/Igls. Shell's map does include the Olympic rings, is copyrighted 1963 and marks the Olympic venues (Olympische Kampfstätten).
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In a 2003 IOC vote, the 2010 Winter Olympics were awarded to Vancouver... allowing Canada to host its second Winter Olympics as well as being the first for the province of British Columbia. Vancouver will be the largest city to host a Winter Olympics, with a population of more than 2.4 million people in the greater Vancouver metropolitan area.[10] A specificity of the 2010 Winter Olympics is that for once the Opening and Closing ceremonies will be celebrated in an indoor arena.
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