1984 Winter Olympics (original) (raw)

The Games of the XIV Winter Olympiad were held in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan; and Falun/G�teborg, Sweden.

Games of the XIV Winter Olympiad
Nations participating	49
Athletes participating	1,274 (274 women, 1,000 men)
Events	39 in 6 sports
Opening ceremonies	February 8, 1984
Closing ceremonies	February 19, 1984
Officially opened by	President Mika Spiljak
Athlete's Oath	Bojan Krizaj
Judge's Oath:	Dragan Perovic
Olympic Torch	Sandra Dubravcic

Highlights

The first Winter Games held in a Socialist country.
First Games under the presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch.
The 20km race is added to women's Nordic skiing.
Skier Jure Franko won Yugoslavia's first Winter Olympics medal; a silver in the giant slalom.
Marja-Liisa H�m�l�inen won all three individual cross-country races for women.
Ga�tan Boucher and Karin Enke each won two gold medals in speed skating, while East German women win all but 3 of the 12 medals in the sport.
Biathlete Eirik Kvalfoss earned a complete set of medals.
Twin brothers Phil and Steve Mahre took first and second place in the slalom.
Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean earned across-the-board perfect scores for artistic impression in the free dance figure skating competition.
Handicapped Ski are the demo event