1992 Winter Olympics

The 1992 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVI Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1992 in Albertville, France.

XVI Olympic Winter Games

Host city	Albertville, France
Motto	Savoie en Fête (English: Party in Savoie)
Nations	64
Athletes	1,801 (1313 men, 488 women)
Events	57 in 6 sports (12 disciplines)
Opening	8 February
Closing	23 February
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 →

These were the last Winter Games to be held in the same year as the Summer Games. They were also the first Games where the Winter Paralympics and the Winter Olympics were held at the same site.

Olympic bids

Seven cities sent a bid for the 1992 Winter Olympics.

• Albertville, France (city chosen to host the Games)
• Anchorage, USA
• Berchtesgaden, Germany
• Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
• Falun, Sweden
• Lillehammer, Norway
• Sofia, Bulgaria

1992 Winter Olympics Media

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  Mexican sculptor Abel Ramírez Águilar working on his gold medal piece in snow sculpture competition related to the Games

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  Small, easyfied version of Olympic Rings black.svg without gaps fo better use downscaled as icon.

References

Olympic Games
Summer Games: 1896, 1900, 1904, 1906, 1908, 1912, (1916), 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, (1940), (1944), 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028
Winter Games: 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, (1940), (1944), 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022
Athens 2004 — Turin 2006 — Beijing 2008 — Vancouver 2010 — London 2012 — Sochi 2014 — Rio 2016 — Pyeongchang 2018 — Tokyo 2020 Games in italics will be held in the future, and those in (brackets) were cancelled because of war. See also: Ancient Olympic Games