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The
1984
Winter Olympics
, officially known as the
XIV Olympic Winter Games
, were held in
Sarajevo
,
Yugoslavia
. (Sarajevo is now in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
.) Other candidate cities were
Sapporo
,
Japan
and
Falun
,
Sweden
. It was the first Winter Games and the second Olympics held in Eastern Europe (the first was the
1980 Summer Olympics
in
Moscow
).