Part I: Challenges and Complexities of the Olympic Winter Games 1. Olympic Winter Games, 'Cold Sports', and Inclusive Values / Irena Martínková and Jim Parry 2. Summer Meets Winter: African Nations Participating at the Winter Olympics, 1960-2018 / Cobus Rademeyer 3. The Cool Runnings Effect: Flexible Citizenship, the Global South, and Transcultural Republics at the Winter Olympic Games / Tom Fabian 4. Lost in the Vault?: Demonstration Sports at the Winter Olympics and How Digital Media Can Bring Them 'Back to the Future' / Xavier Ramon, Qingru Xu and Andrew C. Billings 5. Snowboarding Youth Culture and the Winter Olympics: Co-Evolution in an American-Driven Show / Anne Barjolin-Smith 6. Planning for Legacy in the Post-War Era of the Olympic Winter Games /Laura A. Brown Part II: National and Local Aspirations to Host Winter Games 7. The Icy Road towards the First Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix 1924 / Pedro Pérez-Aragón and Alejandro Viuda-Serrano 8. Canadian Government Involvement in Calgary's Failed 1968 Winter Olympic Bid / Heather L. Dichter 9. The Games That Never Happened: Social Reception and Press Coverage of the Kraków Bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics (2012-2014) / Micha? Mazurkiewicz 10. Winter Olympic Referendums: Reasons for Opposition to the Games / Jean-Loup Chappelet Part III: Politics and Diplomacy at the Games 11. The 1928 Olympic Winter Games in St Moritz: Tourism, Diplomacy and Domestic Politics / Quentin Tonnerre 12. Grenoble 1968, Albertville 1992, and the Establishment of a Strategy to Protect and Market the Winter Olympic Emblems / Pierre-Olaf Schut, Natalia Bazoge and Sandie Beaudouin 13. A Tale of Two Medals: The USA, Olympic Ice Hockey and Popular American Views of Détente (1972) and Renewed Cold War (1980) / John Soares Part IV: Environmental, Physical, and Social Legacies 14. The 1952 and 1994 Olympic Flames: Norway's Quest for Winter Olympic Identity / Matti Goksøyr and Gaute Heyerdahl 15. The Environmental Reimagining of Olympic Sarajevo Zlatko Jovanovic 16. 'A Strong, Sustainable Legacy:' The Environment and Japan's Winter Olympics / Robin Kietlinski 17. Olympic Winter Games in Non-Western Cities: State, Sport and Cultural Diplomacy in Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 2022 / Jung Woo Lee Conclusion - The Future of Olympic Winter Games Research Sarah Teetzel and Heather L. Dichter.