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The 2016 Winter Youth Olympics are scheduled in and around Lillehammer, Norway, between 12 February and 21 February 2016. Nine competition and twelve non-competition venues are to be used; all except the Youth Olympic Village in Lillehammer and a training ice rink being are existing venues. All the competition venues and some of the non-competition venues were built ahead of the 1994 Winter Olympics. The games will be held in four municipalities: Lillehammer, Hamar, Gjøvik and Øyer. Lillehammer has five competition venues, Birkebeineren Ski Stadium, Kristins Hall, Kanthaugen Freestyle Arena, Lillehammer Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track and the Lysgårdsbakken ski jumping hill. In addition, the Olympic Village, the ceremonies stadium Stampesletta, the media center and various cultural venues, such as Lillehammer Art Museum and Maihaugen, are located in Lillehammer. Two skating halls, Hamar Olympic Amphitheatre and Vikingskipet, are located in Hamar, along with a hotel used as a sub-site Olympic Village. Alpine skiing will take place at Hafjell in Øyer and short-track speed skating will take place at Gjøvik Olympic Cavern Hall. ==Background== Originally proposed in 1981, Lillehammer's bid for the 1992 Winter Olympics was unsuccessful.〔LOOC (I): 13〕 Lillehammer then made a new bid for the 1994 Olympics,〔Hove-Ødegård, Celius and Brun: 9〕 which it won on 15 September 1988.〔Hove-Ødegård, Celius and Brun: 6〕 Venue construction ran from spring 1990 to December 1993,〔LOOC (I): 129〕 with all the competition and most of the non-competition venues purpose-built for the games. For the first time in Olympic history, environmental and sustainability issues were considered in venue construction.〔LOOC (I): 124〕 Two venues, Kristins Hall and Hafjell, were built before Lillehammer had been awarded the Olympics, although the former was only used for training during the Olympics. Lillehammer's incumbent ski jumping hill, Balbergbakken, was found to be unsuitable and Lysgårdsbakken was built instead. In the bid, the speed skating events were to be held at Stampesletta, an outdoor track and field stadium in Lillehammer. Only after Lillehammer had been awarded the 1994 Winter Olympics was it decided that an indoor venue would have to be built for the games. This started a debate about the location of the various ice rinks and resulted in the neighboring towns of Hamar and Gjøvik also receiving venues. Lillehammer failed at its bid to host the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics, but was awarded the 2016 edition as the only bidder. The bid was based on reuse of the heritage and venues from the 1994 Olympics.〔 Beyond the construction of an Olympic Village,〔 the only major upgrade to the venues is the addition of a curling rink in Kristins Hall.〔NIF: 12〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Venues of the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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