XIV Olympic Winter Games
The emblem symbolizes a stylized snowflake,
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| Host city | Sarajevo, Yugoslavia | ||
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| Nations participating | 49 | ||
| Athletes participating | 1272 (998 men, 274 women) |
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| Events | 39 in 6 sports (10 disciplines) | ||
| Opening ceremony | 8 February | ||
| Closing ceremony | 19 February | ||
| Officially opened by | President Mika Špiljak | ||
| Athlete's Oath | Bojan Križaj (Alpine skiing) | ||
| Judge's Oath | Dragan Perović | ||
| Olympic Torch | Sanda Dubravčić (Figure skating) | ||
| Stadium | Olympic Koševo Stadium | ||
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The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (French: Les XIVes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; Serbo-Croatian: XIV zimske olimpijske igre / XIV Зимске олимпијске игре; Macedonian: XIV Зимски олимписки игри), was a winter multi-sport event which took place from 8–19 February 1984 in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan; and Gothenburg, Sweden.
It was the first Winter Olympics held in a socialist state. It was also the second Olympics overall, as well as the second consecutive Olympics, to be held in a Socialist country after the 1980 Summer Olympics were held in Moscow, Soviet Union. The only other games that have since been held in a socialist state are the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing and 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, and the 2022 Winter Olympics which will be held in Beijing. All of these have been in China. During the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, numerous newspapers drew attention to the neglected venues of the Sarajevo Olympic games from 30 years prior.
The host city for the XIV Winter Olympics was announced on 18 May 1978 during an 80th session of the International Olympic Committee in Athens, Greece. Sarajevo was selected over Sapporo, Japan (which hosted the games 12 years earlier) by a margin of three votes. Gothenburg was the first city in Sweden to lose a Winter Olympic bid, as other Swedish cities such as Falun and Östersund would later lose their consecutive bids to Calgary, Albertville, Lillehammer, Nagano, and Salt Lake City respectively. Sarajevo, capital of present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, was part of the united Yugoslavia at the time.
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