Nagano Olympics
Nagano Olympics . Ski association of japan director masahiko harada, who won a gold medal in the team event on the large hill at his home olympics in nagano in 1998, said kobayashi is a hero to a new generation of men's ski jumpers in japan. The '94 winter olympics took place in lillehammer, norway, followed by the summer games in 1996 in atlanta. Airbnb Celebrates the Season with World Class Winter from news.airbnb.com Riders traverse through the halfpipe, executing multiple tricks on both walls of the pipe. This was the third olympic games and second winter olympic games to be held in japan, after the 1964 summer olympics in tokyo, and the 1972. Shaun botterill / getty images