Sarajevo 1984 - Olympic Games Winners

Start:

08 Feb 1984

End:

19 Feb 1984

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Athletes:

1272

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Sarajevo, Yugoslavia

In May 1978, at the 80th IOC session in Athens, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia was selected to host the 14th Winter Olympic Games in 1984.
The second round of voters gave the following results: Sarajevo - 39 votes, Sapporo, Japan - 36. The last candidate city was Falun, Sweden - 8 votes in the first round.
It was the first Winter Olympic Games in a Socialist country.

The President of Yugoslavia Mika Spiljak officially opened the 14th Winter Olympic Games in 1984.
The Games were remembered for the biggest snowfalls and gale-force winds, which corrected the alpine skiing schedule.
Because of a commercial contract, a few top Alpine skiers - Ingemar STENMARK, Sweden, and Hanni WENZEL, Liechtenstein were banned from the 1984 Olympics.
Finnish female skier Marja-Liisa HAMALAINEN became the best at the 1984 Winter Olympics, collecting three gold and one bronze.
The Soviet ice hockey team was again the best, and goalkeeper Vladislav TRETIAK won his third gold medal.
To increase the number of athletes, the IOC offered to cover the expenses of one male and one female athlete from each participating country.
A black African skier from Senegal, Lamine Gueye, competed in the Winter Olympics for the first time.
Unfortunately, the Civil War destroyed many of the Olympic and cultural sights in the early 1990s.