Winter Games History Virtual Program

Hosted By The Lake Placid Olympic Museum

Get ready for the 2026 XXV Olympic Winter Games in Milano Cortina!

Join New York's own Lake Placid Olympic Museum as they share historic images and artifacts from their collection that tell the story of the Olympic Winter Games, all the way from Ancient Greece to contemporary Italy. There will be a special focus on the two Games that were hosted in Lake Placid, NY: the first time in 1932 and again in 1980.

Other topics include:

• The founding of the Ancient Olympics in Greece 
• The revival of the ancient Games in 1896
• How the Games were officially split by season into Winter and Summer Games in 1924
• Bringing the Olympic Winter Games to North America forever leaving its mark on Lake Placid
• The Olympic Winter Games through the decades as lenses through which to view the failures, hopes, and greatest successes of humanity
• Miracle on Ice and other history-making moments from the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics
• The evolution of the Winter Olympics
• Time to ask the experts any questions

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86530485921?]pwd=sNUQITku9xWHiWlvWF9mvuMJ8efqrs.1

Meeting ID: 865 3048 5921
Passcode: 506071

This program is presented in partnership with the John C. Hart Memorial Library.

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