1984 Winter Olympics

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XIV Olympic Winter Games
Host city Sarajevo , Yugoslavia
Nations 49
Athletes 1,272 (998 men, 274 women)
Events 39 in 6 sports (10 disciplines)
Opening 8 February
Closing 19 February
Opened by
Cauldron
Stadium Ko?evo Stadium
Winter
Lake Placid 1980 Calgary 1988
Summer
Moscow 1980 Los Angeles 1984

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 ).

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