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Posted: 2/8/2006 9:21:31 AM EDT
how come the winter olympics are in 2006?

i thought the winter olympics was the same year as summer, 2008

what did i miss?

Link Posted: 2/8/2006 9:24:21 AM EDT
[#1]

Quoted:
how come the winter olympics are in 2006?

i thought the winter olympics was the same year as summer, 2008

what did i miss?


They've had them every 2 years for awhile now dude.  Winter olympics are 4 years apart and summer olympics are 4 years apart, they are just staggered and have been for as long as I can remember.
Link Posted: 2/8/2006 9:25:02 AM EDT
[#2]
Winter, 2 years later summer, 2 years later winter alternation thing for quite a while.  Where have you been?

ETA  I got beat by a minute.
Link Posted: 2/8/2006 9:25:40 AM EDT
[#3]
Pretty sure they started staggering them in the '90's.
Link Posted: 2/8/2006 9:31:23 AM EDT
[#4]
Link Posted: 2/8/2006 9:31:41 AM EDT
[#5]

Quoted:
Pretty sure they started staggering them in the '90's.

I'm only 25, that's a stretch for me to remember
Link Posted: 2/8/2006 9:53:11 AM EDT
[#6]

dumb olympics question  


They're called the special olympics, not the dumb olympics, you insensitive lout!!
Link Posted: 2/8/2006 10:47:24 AM EDT
[#7]
If I remember the IOC ran Winter Olympics in 1992 and then again in 1994 so that they would not be staged the same year that the Summer Games are run.
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