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1984 Winter Olympics

The Games of the XIV Winter Olympiad were held in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan; and Falun/Göteborg, 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[?]

Table of contents
1 Highlights
2 Medals Awarded
3 Medal Count
4 References

4.1 Internal Links
4.2 External Links
4.3 Bibliography

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 Hämäläinen[?] won all three individual cross-country races for women.
Gaétan 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.

See the medal winners, ordered by sport:

Pos Country Gold Silver Bronze Total

1 German Democratic Republic 9 9 6 24

2 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 6 10 9 25

3 United States of America 4 4 0 8

4 Finland 4 3 6 13

5 Sweden 4 2 2 8

6 Norway 3 2 4 9

7 Switzerland 2 2 1 5

8 Canada 2 1 1 4

9 Federal Republic of Germany 2 1 1 4

10 Italy 2 0 0 2

11 Great Britain 1 0 0 1

12 Czechoslovakia 0 2 4 6

13 France 0 1 2 3

14 Japan 0 1 0 1

15 Yugoslavia 0 1 0 1

16 Liechtenstein 0 0 2 2

17 Austria 0 0 1 1

IOC Site on 1984 Winter Olympics (http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1984)

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