country hosting winter Olympics

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Across
  1. 2. lake Placid 1932.Hockey was played in a covered hall. Hosted again in 1980,then in 2002, Salt Lake City.
  2. 4. Sochi 2014, World's largest country and nation.
  3. 9. Cortina d'Ampezzo The Cortina Games were the last Games at which the figure skating competitions took place outdoors. Hosted in Turin in 2006.
  4. 10. Innsbruck,1964. For the first time in the Winter Games, the Flame was lit in Olympia. Since then, it has always been lit there. Hosted again in 1976
  5. 12. Calgary 1988,For the first time, the Winter Games extended to 16 days, including three weekends hosted in Vancouver in 2010.
  6. 14. Oslo 1952.Computers were used for the first time in figure skating, to calculate the scores awarded by the different judges for the compulsory and free programmes. Lillehammer, hosted in 1994
Down
  1. 1. Not a country, but a State. Squaw Valley 1960 Men's biathlon and women's speed skating made their Olympic debuts
  2. 3. A symbolic fire at an Olympic Winter Games was first lit in 1936 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
  3. 5. St.MORITZ 1928.A new event was contested: the skeleton, which is like luge except that the athletes descend headfirst. Hosted again in 1948
  4. 6. A cheerful panda called Bing Dwen Dwen has been chosen as the Olympic mascot for the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022.
  5. 7. Sarajevo 1984,Skier Jure Franko claimed silver first Olympic Winter Games medal for the country.
  6. 8. Sapporo 1972 Gold medal, "Paquito" Fernandez Ochoa,was the first ever to be won by a Spanish athlete in the Olympic Winter Games. then hosted in Nagano in 1998.
  7. 11. Chamonix,1924 was recognized as the first Winter Olympics..in 1968, was held in Grenoble,and Alberville in 1992
  8. 13. Soohorang, the mascot of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games took its motif from the white tiger.