The 1984 Winter Olympics (officially the XIV Olympic Winter Games and also known as Sarajevo 1984) were an international winter multi-sport event held between 8 and 19 February 1984 in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. These were the first Winter Games and the second Olympics to be held in a Communist state (the first being the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow).
Bidding[]
| Voting results for the 1984 Winter Olympic Games | ||||||
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| City | Country | Round 1 | Round 2 | |||
| Sarajevo | Yugoslavia | 32 | 39 | |||
| Sapporo | Japan | 36 | 36 | |||
| Göteborg | Sweden | 8 | ||||
Mascot[]
Vučko was the mascot of the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hezegovina. He was chosen through a contest entered by 836 participants, and wasp art of the 6 finalists. Other finalists included a snowball, a hedgehog, a mountain goat, a lamb, and a weasel. readers of various newspapers could later on vote for the final mascot to be used for the games. He was created by Slovenian painter Jože Trobec. He is a wolf, due to the fact that wolves were prominent figures in Yugoslavian fables; he symbolizes strength and courage, and he also symbolizes winter. With the use of his smiling, serious, or frightening expressions, Vučko gave the wolf a friendly appearance and also helped to change the image of the wolf's usual image of being intimidating. He also wears an orange scarf with the Sarajevo 84 logo on it.
Medal table[]
| Rank | Country | 
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| 1 | East Germany | 9 | 9 | 6 | 24 |
| 2 | Soviet Union | 6 | 10 | 9 | 25 |
| 3 | United States | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 4 | Finland | 4 | 3 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | Sweden | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| 6 | Norway | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 7 | Switzerland | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 8 | Canada | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | West Germany | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 10 | Italy | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 13 | France | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 14 | Japan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Yugoslavia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Liechtenstein | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 16 | Austria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
See Also[]
- Logos - A collection of logos featuring this event.
- Torch - Information about this Olympics' torch.
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| Preceded by Moscow 1980 |
Olympics 1984 |
Succeeded by Los Angeles 1984 |
| Preceded by Lake Placid 1980 |
Winter Olympics 1984 |
Succeeded by Calgary 1988 |
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