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title: "Nagano Winter Olympics Ice Hockey"
year: 1998
country: "Japan"
canonical: "https://recap.at/1998/nagano-olympics-1998"
slug: "nagano-olympics-1998"
recapType: "global_event"
startDate: "1998-01-01"
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# Nagano Winter Olympics Ice Hockey

> The first Winter Olympics to allow professional athletes saw the U.S. women's hockey team capture gold in a transformative moment for the sport.

## Summary

Nagano Winter Olympics '98, known in Japan as Hyper Olympics in Nagano , is a multi-event sports game from Konami. It is based on the 1998 Winter Olympics and features 10 Olympic events including skating, skiing, luge, bobsleigh, slalom, curling, halfpipe and snowboarding. The game is part of the Track & Field/Hyper Sports series and would be the last licensed Olympic video game released on a Nintendo home console until Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games about nine years later.

## Sources

- [Nagano Winter Olympics '98](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagano_Winter_Olympics_'98) - Wikipedia

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Canonical: https://recap.at/1998/nagano-olympics-1998