List of Olympic venues in figure skating
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For the Summer and Winter Olympics, there are 27 venues that have been or will be used for figure skating. This is one of two sports in the Winter Olympics to debut in the Summer Olympics with ice hockey being the other.[1] The first venue for the event took place during the 1908 Games was held indoors.[2] Twelve years later, the venue joined ice hockey as another Winter Olympic sport in the Summer Olympics.[1][3] For the first two Winter Olympics, figure skating was held outdoors.[4][5][6] With figure skating being held outdoors, there were weather concerns with thawing for the first two Winter Games.[7] A suggestion by International Olympic Committee President Count Henri de Baillet-Latour to 1932 Olympic Organizing Committee President Godfrey Dewey in September 1930 led Dewey to create the first indoor arena for the Winter Olympics.[7] For the 1936 Games, the venue was covered partially.[8] Following World War II, the 1948 venue became the first venue to be used twice at the Winter Olympics since it had been used twenty years earlier.[9] Figure skating's final competition that took place outdoors was in 1956 though that venue has since had a roof added to it.[10] Since 1960, all figure skating competitions have taken place indoors.[11] Three National Hockey League (NHL) venues have hosted Olympic figure skating competitions: the 1988 (both venues) and the 2010 though the NHL Vancouver Canucks moved out of the 2010 venue following the 1994–95 season.[12][13][14][15][16] The 2002 venue was a National Basketball Association (NBA) venue which meant the Utah Jazz was on a road trip during the 2002 Games.[17][18]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Sports-reference.com profile of the men's Ice Hockey at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
- ^ 1908 Summer Olympics official report. pp. 288-89. Accessed 21 March 2011.
- ^ a b Sports-reference.com profile of Figure skating at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
- ^ a b 1924 Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 645, 648-50. (in French)
- ^ a b 1928 Winter Olympics official report. Part 1. p. 46. (in French) Accessed 10 October 2010.
- ^ a b 1928 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2010-12-17 at the Wayback Machine Part 2. pp. 1-7, 15. (in French) Accessed 10 October 2010.
- ^ a b c 1932 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 141, 150-57. Accessed 12 October 2010.
- ^ a b 1936 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2007-08-09 at the Wayback Machine pp. 123-8, 139. Accessed 16 October 2010. (in German)
- ^ a b 1948 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 6, 23. Accessed 18 October 2010. (in French and German)
- ^ a b The Official Report of the Organising Committee of the VIIth Winter Olympic Games 1956 at Cortina. (1956) CONI. pp. 124-32, 191. Accessed 24 October 2010. (in English and Italian)
- ^ a b 1960 Winter Olympics official report. p. 121. Accessed 27 October 2010.
- ^ a b 1988 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2011-01-14 at the Wayback Machine Part 1. pp. 152-7. Accessed 29 November 2010. (in English and French)
- ^ a b 1988 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2011-01-14 at the Wayback Machine Part 1. pp. 160-3. Accessed 29 November 2010. (in English and French)
- ^ a b "Venues–Pacific Coliseum". Vancouver Organizing Committee. Archived from the original on 2010-12-25. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
- ^ Hockey-reference.com 1994-95 Vancouver Canucks season results. Accessed 21 March 2011.
- ^ Hockey-reference.com 1995-96 Vancouver Canucks season results. Accessed 21 March 2011.
- ^ a b 2002 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 1. pp. 92-. Accessed 21 December 2010.
- ^ Basketball-reference.com 2001-02 Utah Jazz season results. Accessed 21 March 2011.
- ^ 1908 Summer Olympics official report. p. 284. Accessed 5 October 2010.
- ^ 1952 Winter Olympic official report. Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine p. 28.
- ^ 1964 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine pp. 46, 66-7. Accessed 30 October 2010. (in German)
- ^ 1968 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine pp. 108-11. Accessed 1 November 2010. (in English and French)
- ^ 1972 Winter Olympics official report. pp. 256-8. Accessed 6 November 2010. (in English and French)
- ^ 1972 Winter Olympics official report. pp. 285-7. Accessed 6 November 2010. (in English and French)
- ^ 1976 Winter Olympics official report. pp. 204-8. Accessed 10 November 2010. (in English, French, and German)
- ^ 1980 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 1. pp. 47-59. Accessed 16 November 2010. (in English and French)
- ^ 1984 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2011-11-26 at the Wayback Machine pp. 105-8. Accessed 22 November 2010. (in English, French, and Serbo-Croatian)
- ^ 1984 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2011-11-26 at the Wayback Machine pp. 71-2, 87-88, 105-8. Accessed 22 November 2010. (in English, French, and Serbo-Croatian)
- ^ 1992 Winter Olympics official report. pp. 83, 87. Accessed 5 December 2010. (in English and French)
- ^ 1994 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2010-12-02 at the Wayback Machine Volume 3. pp. 57-60. Accessed 8 December 2010.
- ^ 1998 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 215-8. Accessed 12 December 2010.
- ^ 2006 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 3. pp. 76-8. Accessed 27 December 2010. (in English and Italian)
- ^ Sochi2014.com profile of the Sochi Olympic Skating Centre. Accessed 31 December 2010.
- ^ "2018 Winter Olympics official website – Gangneung Ice Arena". Archived from the original on 28 February 2018.