1992 Winter Olympics

Multi-sport event in Albertville, France Albertville 1992 the Winter Paralympics 1992 Winter Paralympics September 2020 1992 Winter Olympics 1992 Winter Olympics logo.svg 185 Emblem of the 1992 Winter OlympicsThe emblem is the flag of Savoy region in the shape of the Olympic flame, dancing above stripes representing the flag of France. Albertville, France Savoie en Fête(en Party in Savoie)Slogans https://www.theolympicdesign.com/olympic-design/slogans/ The Olympic Design 22 September 2019 23 September 2019 5 August 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210805082233/https://www.theolympicdesign.com/olympic-design/slogans/ dead 64 1,802 (1,314 men, 488 women) 57 in 6 sports (12 disciplines) 8 February 1992 23 February 1992 President François Mitterrand IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch François-Cyrille GrangeMichel Platini Théâtre des Cérémonies Calgary 1988 Lillehammer 1994 Seoul 1988 Barcelona 1992 The 1992 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVI Olympic Winter Games (fr XVIes Jeux Olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Albertville '92 (Arpitan: Arbèrtvile '92), were a winter multi-sport event held from 8 to 23 February 1992 in and around Albertville, France. Albertville won the bid to host the Winter Olympics in 1986, beating Sofia, Falun, Lillehammer, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Anchorage, and Berchtesgaden. The 1992 Winter Olympics were the last winter games held in the same year as the Summer Olympics.http://www.olympic.org/en/content/Olympic-Games/All-Past-Olympic-Games/Winter/Albertville-1992/ Albertville 1992 olympic.org 12 March 2010 https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140107032344/http://www.olympic.org/content/error-pages/error404/?404;http://www.olympic.org:80/en/content/olympic-games/all-past-olympic-games/winter/albertville-1992/ 7 January 2014 liveThe Olympic Winter Games Factsheet http://www.olympic.org/Documents/Reference_documents_Factsheets/The_Olympic_Winter_Games.pdf International Olympic Committee 5 August 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20110805142524/http://www.olympic.org/Documents/Reference_documents_Factsheets/The_Olympic_Winter_Games.pdf 5 August 2011 dead The next Winter Olympics were held two years after this one instead of the usual four, which allowed the Olympic Games to take place on every even-numbered year instead of every four years. The Games were the fifth Olympic Games held in France and the country's third Winter Olympics, after the 1924 Winter Games in Chamonix and the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble. This games was the first of two consecutive Olympic games to be held in Western Europe, preceding the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. 18 events in Figure skating, short track speed skating, speed skating, and the opening and closing ceremonies took place in Albertville. The 39 other events were held in the nearby 9 villages and resorts around Savoie: Courchevel, La Plagne, Les Arcs, Les Menuires, Les Saisies, Méribel, Pralognan-la-Vanoise, Tignes, and Val d'Isère. Sixty-four National Olympic Committees and 1,801 athletes participated in six sports and fifty-seven events. This included both the Unified Team, representing the non-Baltic former Soviet republics, and Germany, newly consolidated again as a team following the reunification of the former East and West Germany in 1990. The event also saw the debut of eight nations in the Winter Olympics. The Winter Olympic program has grown this time with the addition of 11 new events. While sports that were already on the program received 5 new events (2 new events in cross-country skiing, at the same time women were allowed to compete in biathlon for the first time and won 3 events exclusive to them.) Another 6 events were added with the implementation of 2 sports that were demonstrated 4 years earlier (freestyle skiing and short track speed skating). These were the last Winter Olympics to include demonstration sports, consisting of curling, aerials and ski ballet, and speed skiing. Due to a rule change implemented in 1986, this was the last edition in the history of the Winter Olympic Games in which all speed skating events were held in an open-air venue. Host city selection thumb|Mexican sculptor Abel Ramírez Águilar working on his gold medal piece in snow sculpture competition related to the Games Bids for the 1992 Winter Olympics 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.http://www.aldaver.com/votes.html IOC Vote History 10 June 2008 25 May 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080525070757/http://www.aldaver.com/votes.html usurped + 1992 Winter Olympics bidding resultshttp://www.gamesbids.com/english/archives/past.shtml Past Olympic host city election results GamesBids 17 March 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110124022022/http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/past.html 24 January 2011 live City Country Round 1 2 3 4 Run-off 5Albertville France 19 26 29 42 — 51Sofia Bulgaria 1971 25 25 28 24 — 25Falun Sweden 10 11 11 11 41 9Lillehammer Norway 10 11 9 11 40 —Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy 7 6 7 — — —Anchorage United States 7 5 — — — —Berchtesgaden West Germany 6 — — — — — Opening ceremony 1992 Winter Olympics opening ceremony Highlights Bjørn Dæhlie and Vegard Ulvang dominated the men's cross-country skiing races, both taking home three gold medals with Norway taking a medal sweep in the event. 16-year-old Ski jumper Toni Nieminen became the youngest male gold medalist in a Winter Olympic event until 2002. Petra Kronberger won both the combined event and the slalom of alpine skiing, while Bonnie Blair won both the 500 m and 1000 m speed skating events, and Gunda Niemann took both of the longest races. Three National Olympic Committees in Asia-Pacific region won their first medals at the Winter Olympics, one in a sport making its debut at the Games (short track speed skating.) Kim Ki-hoon's gold medal in 1000 m short track speed skating signified South Korea's first medal in the Winter Olympics, while Ye Qiaobo's silver medal in women's 500 m speed skating represented China's first Winter Olympics medal. Annelise Coberger from New Zealand became the first Oceanian athlete to win a medal in women's alpine skiing slalom, making her the first athlete from the southern hemisphere to mount the podium at the Winter Games. 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.McNichol Tom 8 February 2014 Sochi's Olympic Luge Track: Slower, but Not Necessarily Safer https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/02/sochis-olympic-luge-track-slower-but-not-necessarily-safer/283694/ 29 October 2020 The Atlantic en-US Legacy The 1992 Olympic Winter Games marked the last time both the Winter and Summer games were held in the same year. The 1992 Winter Olympics also marked the last time France hosted the Olympics until 2024, when Paris became the second city to host the Summer Olympics three times.Kostov Joshua Robinson and Nick 2019-10-24 She's the Face of the 2024 Paris Olympics, and France Is Aflutter en-US Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/shes-the-face-of-the-2024-paris-olympics-and-france-is-appalled-11571931910 2020-10-29 0099-9660 1 November 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201101114330/https://www.wsj.com/articles/shes-the-face-of-the-2024-paris-olympics-and-france-is-appalled-11571931910 live France is set to host the Winter Games in 2030 in the French Alps, 38 years after Albertville played host and will host it again in 2030. 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.2804554 The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games Flyvbjerg Bent Stewart Allison Budzier Alexander Saïd Business School Working Papers (Oxford: University of Oxford) 2016 Oxford 9–13 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.https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2013/oct/09/sochi-2014-olympics-money-corruption Sochi 2014: the costliest Olympics yet but where has all the money gone? The Guardian 9 October 2013 2014-02-12 1 March 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210301062909/https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2013/oct/09/sochi-2014-olympics-money-corruption live The average cost for the Winter Games since 1960 is US$3.1 billion, while the average cost overrun is 142%.Flyvbjerg Bent Budzier Alexander Lunn Daniel September 15, 2020 Regression to the tail: Why the Olympics blow up https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308518X20958724 Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 53 2 Mascot Magique (mascot) The 1992 Winter Games mascot, Magique (Magic), was a small imp in the shape of a star and a cube. The mascot was created by Philippe Mairesse and replaced the bid mascot, which was a mountain goat.2018-01-12 Factbox: Mascots at Winter Olympics through the years en Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-2018-mascots-factbox-idUSKBN1F11K3 2020-10-29 4 November 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201104072754/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-2018-mascots-factbox-idUSKBN1F11K3 live The star shape symbolized dreams and imagination, while the mascot's red and blue colors originated from the French flag. Sports There were 57 events contested in 6 sports (12 disciplines). See the medal winners, ordered by sport: 22em Alpine skiing 10 Biathlon 6 Bobsleigh 2 Cross country skiing 10 Figure skating 4 Freestyle skiing 2 Ice hockey 1 Luge 3 Nordic combined 2 Ski jumping 3 Short track speed skating 4 Speed skating 10 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 accepted its return in Nagano 1998.OL-ishockey på Lillehammer og GJøvik 10 October 1990 Norwegian News Agency no Freestyle skiing – Like curling, it was a demonstration sport four years previously before becoming part of the official program. Only moguls skiing received this status, while aerials and ballet remained demonstration events. Aerials became an official event two years later, while ballet skiing appeared in the games for the last time, going into a progressive decline and losing its status as a competitive discipline by the International Ski Federation (FIS) in 2000.https://books.google.com/books?id=bj7Ydkun0csC&q=fis+drops+ski+ballet&pg=PA67 Skiing February 2007 2020-06-17 Speed skiing – Considered one of the most dangerous events in the sporting world, the discipline won a chance to be evaluated by the International Olympic Committee and the FIS for possible inclusion in a future program. The event, hosted at Les Arcs, was a success, pushing the world record to 229.299 km/h (142mph). Tragically, after qualifying for the final, Swiss skier Nicolas Bochatay ran into a snow-grooming vehicle while skiing on an adjacent public slope with a teammate, dying instantly. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-02-23-sp-5192-story.html THE OLYMPICS / WINTER GAMES AT ALBERTVILLE : Swiss Speed Skier Dies Before Event : Accident: Nicolas Bochatay is killed when he hits a snow machine while skiing on a public slope with a teammate. Los Angeles Times 2026-02-12 23 February 1992 According to reports, Bochatay crested a small hill and crashed into the machine which he had not seen. The discipline has not been featured on an Olympic Games program since then.https://www.ft.com/content/f4c4251e-0816-11e8-9e12-af73e8db3c71 https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/f4c4251e-0816-11e8-9e12-af73e8db3c71 10 December 2022 subscription live Speed skiing: too fast for the Olympics Usborne Simon 2018-02-09 Financial Times en-GB 2019-10-29 Participating nations section September 2020 Sixty-four nations sent competitors to the 1992 Olympics, including seven nations making their first appearance at a Winter Olympics.https://www.olympic.org/albertville-1992 Albertville 1992 International Olympic Committee International Olympic Committee www.olympic.org 23 April 2018 5 September 2020 12 May 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200512132006/https://www.olympic.org/albertville-1992 live Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, six former-Soviet bloc nations chose to form a Unified Team, while the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania competed as independent nations for the first time since 1936.Albertville, France 1992 https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/history/years/1992.htm 3 September 2020 The Washington Post Archive 1998 22 March 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160322171800/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/history/years/1992.htm live Czechoslovakia made its last appearance in the Winter Olympics before its dissolution at the end of 1992. United Nations Security Council Resolution 757 took effect on 30 May 1992 (97 days after the closing ceremonies), and Yugoslav athletes were able to participate under their country's national symbols. It also suspended the activities of the Yugoslav Olympic Committee, making the country's athletes ineligible to compete on the 1992 Summer Olympics.Harvey Randy 1992-07-22 U.N. Bans Yugoslav Teams From Olympics : Summer Games: Ruling paves way for individuals to compete in Barcelona. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-22-sp-4201-story.html 2025-07-15 Los Angeles Times en-US 14 July 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250714130701/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-22-sp-4201-story.html live Despite this, some of their athletes classified in individual sports and gained authorization to compete as Independent Olympic Participants (which also happened at the 1992 Summer Paralympics). Yugoslav athletes returned to the Olympic Games in the 1996 Summer Olympics, when only Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo were still part of the country. The 1992 Winter Olympics were the first time since the 1964 Summer Olympics that Germany competed with a unified team. Seven National Olympic Committees sent their first delegations to the Winter Olympics: Algeria, Bermuda, Brazil, Honduras, Ireland, Swaziland, Croatia, and Slovenia (the last two making their first appearances at any Olympics, just a few months after their respective declarations of independence from Yugoslavia). Through the 2022 Winter Olympics, this has been the only participation of Swaziland (now Eswatini) and Honduras in an edition of the Winter Olympics.Nauright John https://books.google.com/books?id=IkLYDgTnMxEC&q=1992+winter+olympics+swaziland+honduras+first+appearance&pg=RA1-PA407 Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice Parrish Charles 2012 ABC-CLIO 978-1-59884-300-2 en Participating National Olympic Committees22em ALG 1992 Winter 4 AND 1992 Winter 5 ARG 1992 Winter 20 AUS 1992 Winter 23 AUT 1992 Winter 58 BEL 1992 Winter 5 BER 1992 Winter 1 BOL 1992 Winter 5 BRA 1992 Winter 7 BUL 1992 Winter 30 CAN 1992 Winter 108 CHI 1992 Winter 5 CHN 1992 Winter 32 TPE 1992 Winter 8 CRC 1992 Winter 4 CRO 1992 Winter 4 CYP 1992 Winter 4 TCH 1992 Winter 74 DEN 1992 Winter 6 EST 1992 Winter 19 FIN 1992 Winter 62 FRA 1992 Winter 109 (host) GER 1992 Winter 111 GBR 1992 Winter 49 GRE 1992 Winter 8 HON 1992 Winter 1 HUN 1992 Winter 24 ISL 1992 Winter 5 IND 1992 Winter 2 IRL 1992 Winter 4 ITA 1992 Winter 107 JAM 1992 Winter 5 JPN 1992 Winter 60 LAT 1992 Winter 23 LIB 1992 Winter 4 LIE 1992 Winter 7 LTU 1992 Winter 6 LUX 1992 Winter 1 MEX 1992 Winter 20 MON 1992 Winter 5 MGL 1992 Winter 4 MAR 1992 Winter 12 NED 1992 Winter 19 AHO 1992 Winter 2 NZL 1992 Winter 6 PRK 1992 Winter 20 NOR 1992 Winter 80 PHI 1992 Winter 1 POL 1992 Winter 53 PUR 1992 Winter 6 ROU 1992 Winter 23 SMR 1992 Winter 3 SEN 1992 Winter 2 SLO 1992 Winter 27 KOR 1992 Winter 23 ESP 1992 Winter 17 SWZ 1992 Winter 1 SWE 1992 Winter 73 SUI 1992 Winter 74 TUR 1992 Winter 8 EUN 1992 Winter 129 USA 1992 Winter 147 ISV 1992 Winter 12 YUG 1992 Winter 25 Number of athletes by National Olympic Committees IOC Letter Code Country Athletes USA USA 1992 Winter 147 EUN EUN 1992 Winter 129 GER GER 1992 Winter 111 FRA FRA 1992 Winter 109 CAN CAN 1992 Winter 108 ITA ITA 1992 Winter 107 NOR NOR 1992 Winter 80 TCH TCH 1992 Winter 74 SUI SUI 1992 Winter 74 SWE SWE 1992 Winter 73 FIN FIN 1992 Winter 62 JPN JPN 1992 Winter 60 AUT AUT 1992 Winter 58 POL POL 1992 Winter 53 GBR GBR 1992 Winter 49 CHN CHN 1992 Winter 32 BUL BUL 1992 Winter 30 SLO SLO 1992 Winter 27 YUG YUG 1992 Winter 25 HUN HUN 1992 Winter 24 AUS AUS 1992 Winter 23 KOR KOR 1992 Winter 23 LAT LAT 1992 Winter 23 ROU ROU 1992 Winter 23 ARG ARG 1992 Winter 20 PRK PRK 1992 Winter 20 MEX MEX 1992 Winter 20 EST EST 1992 Winter 19 NED NED 1992 Winter 19 ESP ESP 1992 Winter 17 MAR MAR 1992 Winter 12 ISV ISV 1992 Winter 12 GRE GRE 1992 Winter 8 TPE TPE 1992 Winter 8 TUR TUR 1992 Winter 8 BRA BRA 1992 Winter 7 LIE LIE 1992 Winter 7 DEN DEN 1992 Winter 6 LTU LTU 1992 Winter 6 NZL NZL 1992 Winter 6 PUR PUR 1992 Winter 6 AND AND 1992 Winter 5 BEL BEL 1992 Winter 5 CHI CHI 1992 Winter 5 ISL ISL 1992 Winter 5 JAM JAM 1992 Winter 5 MON MON 1992 Winter 5 ALG ALG 1992 Winter 4 BOL BOL 1992 Winter 4 CRC CRC 1992 Winter 4 CRO CRO 1992 Winter 4 CYP CYP 1992 Winter 4 IRL IRL 1992 Winter 4 LIB LIB 1992 Winter 4 MGL MGL 1992 Winter 4 SMR SMR 1992 Winter 3 IND IND 1992 Winter 2 AHO AHO 1992 Winter 2 SEN SEN 1992 Winter 2 BER BER 1992 Winter 1 HON HON 1992 Winter 1 LUX LUX 1992 Winter 1 PHI PHI 1992 Winter 1 SWZ SWZ 1992 Winter 1 Total 1,801 Venues Venues of the 1992 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 September 2020 (Host nation is highlighted.) FRA flagIOC 1992 Winter 10 10 6 9 6 8 1 9 6 5 6 7 8 5 4 2 3 5 1 yes 4 6 4 3 1 3 2 3 2 2 1 1 1992 Winter Olympics medal table (1 combined team with athletes from 6 nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States; the team only appeared in these Winter Olympics) Podium sweeps +DateSportEventNOCGoldSilverBronze10 FebruaryCross-country skiing Men's 30 kilometre classicalNOR 1992 WinterVegard UlvangBjørn DæhlieTerje Langli17 FebruarySpeed skating Women's 5000 metresGER 1992 WinterGunda Niemann-KleemannHeike WarnickeClaudia Pechstein Schedule OCOpening ceremony●Event competitions1Event finalsCCClosing ceremony February 19928thSat9thSun10thMon11thTue12thWed13thThu14thFri15thSat16thSun17stMon18thTue19thWed20thThu21stFri22ndSat23rdSunEvents20px|alt=|link= Ceremonies OC CC 20px Alpine skiing1●1●1 11 211 1 | 10 20px Biathlon111 1 11| 6 20px Bobsleigh●1●1 | 2 20px Cross country skiing11 2 2 11 11 | 10 20px Figure skating●1 ●●1●1 ● 1 | 4 20px Freestyle skiing●2 | 2 20px Ice hockey●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●1 | 1 20px Luge●1●11| 3 20px Nordic combined●1 ●1 | 2 20px Short track ● 31| 4 20px Ski jumping1 1 1 | 3 20px Speed skating111111111 1 | 10 Daily medal events 4 3 3 4 6 4 5 5 4 4 2 6 2 4 1 57Cumulative total 4 7 10 14 20 24 29 34 38 42 44 50 52 56 57February 19928thSat9thSun10thMon11thTue12thWed13thThu14thFri15thSat16thSun17stMon18thTue19thWed20thThu21stFri22ndSat23rdSunTotal events See also 1992 Winter Olympics References Notes Citations External links 1992 Winter Olympics Olympic Review – Official Results The program of the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics woly Calgary XVI Olympic Winter GamesAlbertville 1992 Lillehammer Olympics France Sports 1990s 1992 Winter Olympics 1992 1992 Winter Olympics Winter Olympics Winter Olympics Olympics 1992