1992 Winter Olympics (original) (raw)

The Games of the XVI Winter Olympiad were held in 1992 in Albertville, France. Other candidate cities were Anchorage, USA; Berchtesgaden, Germany; Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy; Lillehammer, Norway; Falun, Sweden; and Sofia, Bulgaria.

Games of the XVI Winter Olympiad
Nations participating	64
Athletes participating	1,801 (488 women, 1,313 men)
Events	57 in 7 sports
Opening ceremonies	February 8, 1992
Closing ceremonies	February 23, 1992
Officially opened by	President of the French Republic Fran�ois Mitterrand
Athlete's Oath	Surya Bonaly
Judge's Oath:	Pierre Bornat
Olympic Torch	Michel Platini, Fran�ois-Cyrille Grange

Highlights

The last Winter Games to be staged in the same year as the Summer Games.
Freestyle skiing and short-track speedskating made their debuts as medal disciplines, as did women's biathlon.
Norwegian skiers won every cross-country skiing race. Bj�rn Daehlie and Vegard Ulvang each won three gold medals.
Speedskater Bonnie Blair won both the 500 and 1,000m events; Gunda Niemann took both of the longest races.
Toni Nieminen, 16, became the youngest male winner of a Winter event.
Mark Kirchner became the first biathlete to win medals in all three biathlon events.
Alpine skier Petra Kronberger won both the combined event and the slalom.
Kim Ki-hoon earned gold medals in both short-track events.
Alex Flanagan won gold medal in biathalon and 1000m cross-country.
Curling is the demo sport

FREESTYLE SKIING,SPEED SKIING are the demo events