1992 Winter Olympics

XVI Olympic Winter Games

Emblem of the 1992 Winter Olympics[a]
Host city	Albertville, France
Motto	Savoie en Fête (English: Party in Savoie)[1]
Nations	64
Athletes	1,801 (1,313 men, 488 women)
Events	57 in 6 sports (12 disciplines)
Opening	8 February 1992
Closing	23 February 1992
Opened by	President François Mitterrand
Cauldron	François-Cyrille Grange Michel Platini
Stadium	Théâtre des Cérémonies
Winter ← Calgary 1988 Lillehammer 1994 → Summer ← Seoul 1988 Barcelona 1992 → 1992 Winter Paralympics

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The 1992 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVI Olympic Winter Games (

A record-breaking seven locations bid for the games. The non-winning bids were from Anchorage, Berchtesgaden, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Falun, Lillehammer, and Sofia. The 91st IOC Session, held in Lausanne on 17 October 1986, voted Albertville the host of the Games.^[4]

1992 Winter Olympics bidding results^[5]

City	Country	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Run-off	Round 5
Albertville	France	19	26	29	42	—	51
Sofia	Bulgaria	25	25	28	24	—	25
Falun	Sweden	10	11	11	11	41	9
Lillehammer	Norway	10	11	9	11	40	—
Cortina d'Ampezzo	Italy	7	6	7	—	—	—
Anchorage	United States	7	5	—	—	—	—
Berchtesgaden	West Germany	6	—	—	—	—	—

Opening ceremony

Highlights

Three National Olympic Committees in

Swiss speed skier Nicolas Bochatay died on the penultimate day of the Games, when he crashed into a snow-grooming vehicle during a training run.^[6]

Legacy

The 1992 Olympic Winter Games marked the last time both the Winter and Summer games were held in the same year. The 1992 Olympics also marked the last time France hosted the Olympics. The games are scheduled to return to France in 2024 when Paris is set to become the second city to host the Summer Olympics three times.^[7]

Cost and cost overrun

The Oxford Olympics Study established the outturn cost of the Albertville 1992 Winter Olympics at US$2.0 billion (in 2015-dollars) and cost overrun at 137% in real terms.^[8] This includes sports-related costs only, that is: (i) operational costs incurred by the organizing committee to stage the Games, e.g., expenditures for technology, transportation, workforce, administration, security, catering, ceremonies, and medical services; and (ii) direct capital costs incurred by the host city and country or private investors to build, e.g., the competition venues, the Olympic village, international broadcast center, and media and press center, which are required to host the Games. Indirect capital costs were not included, e.g. road, rail, or airport infrastructure, or hotel upgrades or other business investment incurred in preparation for the Games but not directly related to their staging. In comparison, the cost and cost overrun of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics were US$2.5 billion and 13%, respectively, while the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics (the most costly Olympics to date) had costs and cost overrun at US$51 billion and 289%, respectively.^[9] The average cost for the Winter Games since 1960 is US$3.1 billion, while the average cost overrun is 142%.^{[citation needed]}

Mascot

The 1992 Winter Games

Sports

There were 57 events contested in 6 sports (12 disciplines). See the medal winners, ordered by sport:

Demonstration sports

This was the last time demonstration events were included in the Winter Olympics program. Of the 8 events that were under evaluation, 4 received the endorsement to be included in an official form in future editions of the Games (Curling tournaments and the aerials events on the freestyle skiing). The other four events (speed skiing and skiing ballet events on the freestyle skiing) were rejected and have not since returned.

• Curling – Was an official sport in the Olympic program in 1924, after which it was a demonstration sport twice, in 1932 and 1988. There was a possibility of re-inclusion in Lillehammer 1994, but in 1990 the IOC Executive Committee rejected its return as an official sport. The IOC acepted its return in Nagano 1998.^[11]
• International Ski Federation (FIS) in 2000.^[12]
• Speed skiing – Considered one of the most dangerous events in the sporting world, the event won a chance to be evaluated by the members of the International Olympic Committee and the FIS, with the possibility of appearing in the program of a future edition. However, this possibility was extinguished when Swiss skier Nicolas Bochatay ran into a snow-grooming vehicle during a training run, dying immediately. According to reports, Bochatay was moving at a speed of more than 110 kilometres per hour (68 mph) and was unable to hear the machine's warning siren. His death is the subject of several controversies, as speed skiing was not a part of the official program. After this incident, the sport was excluded from any evaluation for future additions to the Olympic program.^[13]

Participating nations

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Sixty-four nations sent competitors to the 1992 Olympics, including seven nations making their first appearance at a Winter Olympics.

The 1992 Games are the last in which the speed skating venue was outdoors.

• Albertville Olympic Park
  • Halle Olympique – Figure skating and short-track speed skating
  • L'anneau de vitesse – Speed skating
  • Théâtre des Cérémonies – Ceremonies (opening & closing)
• Les Arcs – Speed skiing
• Courchevel – Ski jumping and Nordic combined
• Les Ménuires – Alpine skiing (slalom men)
• Méribel – Alpine skiing (women)
  • Méribel Ice Palace – Ice hockey
• La Plagne – Bobsleigh and luge
• Pralognan-la-Vanoise – Curling
• Les Saisies – Biathlon, cross-country skiing
• Tignes – Freestyle skiing
• Val d'Isère
  – Alpine skiing (men combined, downhill, giant slalom, and super-giant slalom)

Medal table

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(Host nation is highlighted.)

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	10	10	6	26
2	Unified Team1	9	6	8	23
3	Norway	9	6	5	20
4	Austria	6	7	8	21
5	United States	5	4	2	11
6	Italy	4	6	4	14
7	France*	3	5	1	9
8	Finland	3	1	3	7
9	Canada	2	3	2	7
10	South Korea	2	1	1	4
Totals (10 entries)		53	49	40	142

(¹ combined team with athletes from 6 nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States; the team only appeared in these Winter Olympics)

Podium sweeps

Date	Sport	Event	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze
10 February	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 kilometre classical	Norway	Vegard Ulvang	Bjørn Dæhlie	Terje Langli
17 February	Speed skating	Women's 5000 metres	Germany	Gunda Niemann-Kleemann	Heike Warnicke	Claudia Pechstein

Schedule

February 1992		8th Sat	9th Sun	10th Mon	11th Tue	12th Wed	13th Thu	14th Fri	15th Sat	16th Sun	17st Mon	18th Tue	19th Wed	20th Thu	21st Fri	22nd Sat	23rd Sun	Events
Ceremonies		OC															CC	—
Alpine skiing			1	●	1	●	1		1	1		2	1	1		1		10
Biathlon					1	1		1		1			1	1				6
Bobsleigh									●	1					●	1		2
Cross country skiing			1	1			2		2		1	1			1	1		10
Figure skating			●		1		●	●	1	●	1		●		1			4
Freestyle skiing						●	2											2
Ice hockey		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	1	1
Luge			●	1	●	1		1										3
Nordic combined					●	1				●	1							2
Short track												●		3		1		4
Ski jumping			1					1		1								3
Speed skating			1	1		1	1	1	1	1	1	1		1				10
Daily medal events			4	3	3	4	6	4	5	5	4	4	2	6	2	4	1	57
Cumulative total			4	7	10	14	20	24	29	34	38	42	44	50	52	56	57
February 1992		8th Sat	9th Sun	10th Mon	11th Tue	12th Wed	13th Thu	14th Fri	15th Sat	16th Sun	17st Mon	18th Tue	19th Wed	20th Thu	21st Fri	22nd Sat	23rd Sun	Total events

See also

• 1992 Winter Paralympics
• 1992 Summer Paralympics
• 1992 Summer Olympics
• Olympic Games celebrated in France
  • 1900 Summer Olympics – Paris
  • 1924 Summer Olympics – Paris
  • 1924 Winter Olympics – Chamonix
  • 1968 Winter Olympics – Grenoble
  • 1992 Winter Olympics – Albertville
  • 2024 Summer Olympics – Paris

• List of IOC country codes

References

Notes

Citations

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2. ^ "Albertville 1992". olympic.org. Archived from the original on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2010.
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4. ^ "IOC Vote History". Archived from the original on 25 May 2008. Retrieved 10 June 2008.
5. ^ "Past Olympic host city election results". GamesBids. Archived from the original on 24 January 2011. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
6. ^ McNichol, Tom (8 February 2014). "Sochi's Olympic Luge Track: Slower, but Not Necessarily Safer". The Atlantic. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
7. ISSN 0099-9660
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9. ^ "Sochi 2014: the costliest Olympics yet but where has all the money gone?". The Guardian. 9 October 2013. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
10. ^ "Factbox: Mascots at Winter Olympics through the years". Reuters. 12 January 2018. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
11. ^ "OL-ishockey på Lillehammer og GJøvik" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 10 October 1990.
12. ^ "Skiing". February 2007. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
13. ^ Usborne, Simon (9 February 2018). "Speed skiing: too fast for the Olympics". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 10 December 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
14. ^ International Olympic Committee (23 April 2018). "Albertville 1992". www.olympic.org. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
15. ^ "Albertville, France 1992". The Washington Post Archive. 1998. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
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External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1992 Winter Olympics.

• "Albertville 1992". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.
• Olympic Review – Official Results
• The program of the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics

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