And nobody does winter quite like the home of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
That includes supporting the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games and London 2012 Olympic Games.
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But that was long before the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver turned White into a worldwide brand.
He was named official artist of the Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid and in Sarajevo as well as the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
"The inclusion of these events on the Olympic Winter Games program is sure to be appreciated by athletes and sports fans alike, " IOC president Jacques Rogge said.
White, who has multi-million endorsement deals with Kraft, Burton, Red Bull, Target, Oakley, Ubisoft, was one of the highest-earning athletes competing at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.
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Owner of the Seibu Lions pro baseball team, he set his sights on bringing the Olympic Winter Games to Nagano a decade ago, as honorary chairman of the Nagano Bidding Committee.
In 1999, he left the business world to become the president and chief executive of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, after fiscal and ethical problems emerged under the previous management.
According to the World Resources Institute, a lack of snow could also threaten the future of Winter Olympic Games.
Also in southeastern France, Chamonix Mont Blanc had the honour of hosting the very first Winter Olympic Games in 1924.
In the last 100 years, Lake Placid has hosted the Winter Olympic Games twice, and it remains a destination for the athletic.
While at WPTZ, she covered a variety of local and national stories, including the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, N.
"The biggest failure would be our team losing at the Winter Olympic Games, " Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said in an appearance in London during this summer's games.
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After their athletes topped the medals table with 14 golds at the winter Olympic games, some 100, 000 flag-waving locals took to the streets of Vancouver and the nearby ski resort of Whistler, deliriously singing the national anthem.
Like the American president, who could not walk and chew gum at the same time, they cannot, apparently, cope with Parliament's deliberations while dealing with the country's economic troubles and the challenge of hosting the Winter Olympic games.
The Black Sea resort city of Sochi will host the Winter Olympic Games and the reinstated Russian Grand Prix in 2014, and Russia will host the FIFA World Cup in 2018, with many hotel chains around the country investing in anticipation.
Prior to the Vancouver Games, no Winter Olympic athlete had been killed during an event.
After participating in biathlons in the 1972 and 1976 winter games and coaching other U.S. Olympic teams, John Morton built a modest business designing trails for ski resorts.
Oreiller was its resident snow showman in the 1940s -- a fearless adrenalin junkie who lived up to his nickname, and claimed skiing's first Olympic gold medals when the sport was introduced at the 1948 Winter Games.
Its commercial focus is looking ahead two years to the Winter Games in the Russian city of Sochi and the Youth Olympic Games in China's Nanjing and two years after that to the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Then the Finnish representative at the International Olympic Committee resigned in the wake of a row over Salt Lake City's bid to hold the winter games.
The incident occurred in January 2002 just outside school grounds when the Olympic torch relay was moving through the Alaska capital on its way to the Salt Lake City, Utah, Winter Games.
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