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Winter Olympic Games
The 21st Winter Olympics were held in Vancouver, Canada from 12-28 February 2010. They were followed by the Paralympic Winter Games from 12 - 21 March.
The New Zealand Winter Olympics site lists competitors and officials and contains interviews with the New Zealand team.
The next Winter Olympics will take place in 2014 in Sochi, Russia. Visit the official website.
More Olympic links
Did you know?
Annelise Coberger — the first person from the southern hemisphere to win a medal at the Winter Olympics — was born in Christchurch in 1971. She took silver in the slalom at Albertville in France in 1992. She also won several World Cup podium places.
- Olympic News from a variety of sources
- Olympic Winter Sports Federations
- See also our ice sports and skiing and snow sports pages for more library resources.
History
- The Ancient Olympic Games
- By the Perseus Project at Tufts University
- Ancient Olympics: The Real Story
- Online exhibit from the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
- The Olympic Museum
- Online gallery
- Olympics at Infoplease
- The International Olympic Committee
- The Olympics
- Internet gateway pages for more Olympics sites
Search the library catalogue
- Olympics — general search
- Winter Olympics
- Olympic Games — for a specific years' games
