 This is the SF Productions podcast network Alteas Forteas, Noeas 3 From the pop culture bunker, I'm Mindy and I'm Mark you can check out our audio podcast How I got my way three comics on iTunes or on our website SFPodcastNetwork.com Well the winter quadrennial international sporting event queues continues its history and Let's go to that the first winter queues in Canada happened in 1988 in Calgary They previously had a summer queues in Montreal in both cases Canada won zero golds But they took surplus funds from Calgary due to TV and sponsorship and plowed it into their sports programs By the time queues returned to Canada in 2010. They won 25 medals 270 million in federal and provincial funds was secured for the Calgary games 324 million generated for TV rights the total cost for Calgary queues was 829 million Marquee events ice hockey and figure skating were scheduled for us prime time But ABC lost 60 million on the deal They would seed this to CBS for the next games after owning queues for decades Tickets were an issue after was discovered that 50% of the top tickets went to sponsors and IOC officials Yet again whether was an issue with wins kicking temps up to 63 degrees Fahrenheit The use of snow equipment resulted in the death of Austria's team doctor who got knocked into a snow grooming machine And was killed instantly. This was not the last time such a thing happened Alberto Tombow of Italy won two skiing events and would eventually win gold at three queues games Caterina of it won another gold for figure skating and then went pro a rarity for an East German athlete men's figure skating had the battle of the bryans with us boy tonneau Barely beating Canada order for the gold US speed skater Dan Janssen Competed hours after his sister died of leukemia. He fell in two different events and would not win gold until 1994 two examples of true amateur athletics Eddie the eagle Edwards of Britain placed last in both ski jumping events and became a celebrity for doing so There was also a recent biopic The Jamaican bobsled team the first time their country competed in winter queues Became hits even though they barely competed and they too got a biopic of sorts cool runnings The Soviet Union returned to the top metal spot Calgary was the first winter queues to truly be successful partly due to reduced restrictions on sponsorship and for additional Demonstration sports which extended its length curling for the first times in 1932 Disabled skiing will repeat from 1984 Freestyle skiing and short track skating Three of them would eventually be added to queues proper and the disabled skiing continued in the Paralympic games 1423 athletes from 57 countries competed in 46 events 1992 winter queues was held in Albertville, France and CBS took over US winter queues coverage after ABC had owned it for decades Calgary had shown that winter queues was still viable and profitable at one point the IOC had entertained pulling the plug on the winter queues so seven cities bid for the games With the fall of the USSR Germany competed as a united country for the first time since 1964 winning the most medals Croatia and Slovenia competed as separate teams as did the Baltic states many of the former Soviet Republics competed together as the United team Albertville was established as costing two billion dollars to put on Freestyle skiing moguls short track speed skating and women's biathlon became official sports Annalise Koberger of New Zealand became the first to get the gold from the southern hemisphere in a winter event Which was women's slalom Kristi Yamaguchi and Midori Ito became the first Asians to win medals in women's figure skating And probably why two of the three US competitors in the current winter games are Asian they idolize Yamaguchi There was another deadly accident involving a snow groomer Swiss skier Nicholas bocatae collided with one 1801 athletes from 64 countries competed in 57 events a huge increase Three demonstration sports were tried out curling again Freestyle skiing which is aerials and ski ballet and speed skating speed skiing Skiing which is generating a top speed during a run which involved another death and was not attempted again The gold medal winners made it to 229 kilometers per hour men and 219 kilometers per hour women a major change occurred in winter queues at this point The IOC determined that interest in the winter games were undermined by holding them the same year as summer queues So they began staggering them with the next winter queues held in 1984 in Lilihammer, Norway Of course for those athletes training their entire lives to peak at just the right time The IOC also wanted to avoid more Eddie the Eagles and cold runnings are cool runnings So stricter qualifying rules were implemented The big story Lilihammer was Tonya Harding versus Nancy Kerrigan in the infamous clubbing incident We will skip the details, but you can check out the recent biopic about that in the end neither won the gold Freestyle skiing expanded to aerials at his official sport Short track skating saw Derek Campbell celebrate a bronze win when he had not actually completed the race He's like yeah one way Any wound up in fourth 1300 or sorry 1700 37 athletes from 67 countries competed in 61 events and starting with this squeeze Demonstration events were out. They just were like either you're in or you're not We're not gonna play around with them Russia won the most gold medals, but Norway had the most medals overall a return to Asia in 1998 for the winter queues in Nagano, Japan Curling returned and became an official sport with Switzerland winning the men's tournament and Canada the women's event Snowboarding was added as the ex gamification of queues continued Women's hockey was also added with the US winning the gold the US men were not even on the podium for the first time NHL players were allowed in Surya Bonnet a French women's figure skater did a backflip and landed on one blade the only time this has ever happened Tara Lipinski was the youngest individual winner of gold age 15 in winter queues She's now paired with Johnny Weir as NBC's skating commentators Bjorn Dolly of Norway won three gold medals in Nordic skiing becoming the most decorated winter queues athlete with eight gold medals and 12 medals overall In a of course. He did moment snowboarder Ross Rebagliati of Canada won the gold medal after initially being disqualified for testing positive for marijuana dude 2,176 athletes from 72 countries competed in 68 events Germany topped the medal count 2002 brought winter queues back to the US at Salt Lake, Utah a bribery scandal tainted the event to some extent because cities Had always been applying to get to queues had been bribing the IOC for decades It always happened, but this was more obvious than not and they made a fuss about it Despite this huge success overall topping the number of athletes events countries ratings and marketing Leanne Rhymes and the Morban Tabernacle Choir performed at the opening ceremony There was additional security for the event since 9-11 was only six months earlier Janika Kostelik won three golds and a silver in Alpine skiing the first for Croatia and the first triple gold by a woman Skeleton returned for the first time since 1948 German Georg Hackel won singles luge and became the first athlete to win the same event in five queues games Which he had a little advantage there in the fact that now that there was a brief like two-year break there exactly Sarah Hughes won the golden figure skating after heavily favorites Michelle Kwan fell during her performance There were dual gold medals in Paris figure skating when a judging scandal arose after which a new system of scoring was implemented China won their first gold medals in short track skating Australia and the southern hemisphere got their first gold in short track when Stephen Bradbury saw his competition crash in front of him not once but twice in two different heats Like he was behind and everybody else crashing. You're like, I guess I won Australia got a second gold in women's aerials after a 50-year absence from the top spot Canada won men's hockey beating the u.s The same thing happened in terms of the canadian women A large number of athletes were disqualified for doping The closing ceremonies had a plethora of stars kiss willy nelson sting Dave matthew's band in sync and bon Jovi among others 2399 athletes from 78 countries competed in 78 events and norway returned to the top metal spot back to europe for 2006 and torino italy after all the bribery issues in 2002 IOC members were forbidden from visiting potential host cities A selection college was used New sports included mass start by athelon team sprint cross country skiing snowboard cross and team pursuit speed skating And the x gamification is complete Latvia won its first medal with a bronze in the luge a chinese figure skating pair attempted a throw quadruple sell cow jump Never successfully completed in competition and failed but got the silver for doing so Combined alpine skiing was a mess with many disqualifications including bodie miller who is known for partying too much lindsay jacabella's fell in snowboard cross at the very end of the race doing an unnecessary stunt celebrating her premature win 2005 108 athletes from 80 countries competed in 84 events germany returned to the top metal spot Back to the great white north in 2010 and vancouver There's a lot of local opposition to this which created tensions overall Quiz decorations were toned down after protesters ripped them up Uh, first nations groups also protested the use of their symbols georgian luger nodar kumachorneri I've butchered that Died during a training run on day one of the games forcing a change in the track layout Russia did terribly in terms of medals ending up in sixth place Some believe the current doping scandals were started after this this terrible result Canada never having won a gold in their home country went on to top the medal count with 14 of them Although us actually won the most overall Ski cross was added to the list of sports Women's luge was not which created a big fight. It would be added the next time Two silver medals were awarded in men's biathlon due to an exact tie to the 10th of a second First golds in skating china won their first in pairs Canada won their first in ice dancing breaking a european 34 years streak South korea won their first in women's skating Japan won their first medal bronze in men's skating Apollo Anton ono finishes qui's career with short track skating in eight medals 2566 athletes from 82 countries competed in 86 events In 2014 qui's moved to sochi russia and a lot of controversy It had a final budget of 51 billion dollars The next largest was 44 billion in beijing And corruptions by officials was a possible cause LGBT athletes were concerned over recent government actions against their class Local ethnic groups believed so she was the site of a genocide in the 19th century and wanted the event moved More and more athletes particularly from russia were discovered doping new sports included figure skating team event women's ski jumping ski half pipe team relay luge ski slope style snowboard slope style and snowboard parallel special slalom I think refrigerator magnets were involved in this. Let's keep changing the words around Bodie miller who was 36 became the oldest and mikaela shifrin 18 the youngest skiers to win medals Men's figure skating medals were all won by those of asian descent for the first time The u.s. won ice dancing for the first time with maryl davis and charlie white 2873 athletes from 88 countries competed in 98 events Now again, I want to remind you as we go into the next games I will do be doing this daily blog of pyongchang games on the sfppn website And I will be doing my best to avoid watching the winter uh quiz events I will be doing many other things instead And you can check out our audio podcast how I got my wife to read comics on itunes or on our website sfpodcastnetwork.com From the pop culture bunker. I'm midi And I'm mark. Thanks for watching