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The exact lineup of individual events changes at each Winter Olympics. Sports drop in and are added all the time — snowboarding is a relatively new addition, for example.
And until the 1990s, demonstration sports were a part of the Games. Participants of an obscure event would play a few exhibition rounds to help popularize it, and hopefully get it adopted as a real Olympic event, with medals awarded and everything.
Since the modern Olympics started up more than 100 years ago, there have been a number of notable winter sports that were contested or exhibited that didn’t make the long-term cut.
Here are the snowy, icy sports that the Olympics planners just couldn’t get behind.
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