In February 2018, the Republic Of Korea will become the eighth country in history to host both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games when Pyeongchang welcomes the world.
Seoul acted as the Olympic Summer Games hosts in 1988, a Games in which Florence Griffith Joyner famously won double sprint gold and Ben Johnson was stripped of his 100 metre crown for a positive doping sample.
Also at those Games, Greg Louganis won triple diving gold for the United States and Christa Luding-Rothenburger became the only woman in history to win Olympic Winter and Summer gold in the same year.
France was the first nation to host both the Summer and Winter Games in 1924. A Summer host in 1900 and 1924, it also doubled up for the Winter Games in that same latter year.
The United States have played host to the Summer Games on four occasions and the Winters three times.
Germany hosted both in 1936, while Japan is set to host the Summer Games for a second time in 2020, and is a two-time Winter Olympic host.
The other nations to have achieved the feat of playing home to both the Summer and Winter Games are Italy, Canada and Russia.
