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Originally Posted by Infamous1

Summer and Winter Olympics used to be in the same year and then they changed it.

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

The IOC decided to shift the Winter games to the middle of each Olympiad so as to celebrate them opposite of the Summer Games.

You also missed the 1992 Albertville games. Lillehammer was 1994, then Nagano in 1998.

Originally Posted by diane_phaneuf

summer and winter olympics used to always be in the same year, 1992 was the first year they split it.

so they were both in 1988, and then summer in 1992 and winter in 1994 and then both of them every 4 years

Originally Posted by LockedOut

I'm pretty sure there was a winter olympics in 1992. Albertville I think.

Thanks everyone.