With Beijing being named to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, how many cities have held both the Winter and Summer Games? asked Matthew Bryant
There's a nice short answer to this one: None.
Beijing - which beat Almaty in Kazakhstan for the honour of hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics - also staged the Summer Games in 2008. Beijing will also become only the second capital city to stage the Winter Olympics, after Oslo in 1952.
China will be the seventh country to host both the Summer and Winter Games, following France (Summer in Paris in 1900 and 1924, three Winter Games since the first one in Chamonix in 1924), the United States (four summer, four winter), Germany (Berlin 1936 and Munich 1972; Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936), Italy (Rome 1960; Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 and Turin 2006), Japan (Tokyo 1964; Sapporo 1972 and Nagano 1998), Canada (Montreal 1976; Calgary 1988 and Vancouver 2010), and Russia (Moscow 1980; Sochi 2014).
South Korea will join this list in 2018, when the Winter Games are due to take place in Pyeongchang; the 1988 Summer Games were held in Seoul.
France (1924), the United States (1932) and Germany (1936) are the only countries to stage both in the same year, something that is no longer possible since the date of the Winter Games was changed after 1992.