1984 winter olympics

bgcolor="#efefef" colspan="2" style="margin-left:5px;" align="center"\| XIV Olympic Winter Games
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Nations participating	49
Athletes participating	1272 (998 men, 274 women)
Events	49 in 6 sports
Opening ceremony	February 8, 1984
Closing ceremony	February 19, 1984
Officially opened by	Mika piljak
Athlete's Oath	Bojan Kriaj
Official's Oath	Dragan Perović
Olympic Torch	Sanda Dubravčić

The XIV Olympic Winter Games were held in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan; and Falun/Gothenburg, Sweden.

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 Hmlinen won all three individual cross-country races for women.
Gatan 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.
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean earned across-the-board perfect scores for artistic impression in the free dance figure skating competition.
Handicapped Ski was the demo event.

See the medal winners, ordered by sport:

Top medal-collecting nations:
(for the full table, see 1984 Winter Olympics medal count)

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b>Pos	Country	bgcolor="gold"\| Gold	bgcolor="silver"\| Silver	bgcolor="cc9966"\| Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	9	9	6	24
2	USSR	6	10	9	25
3	United States	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	West Germany	2	1	1	4
10	2	0	0	2

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