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Host City: Albertville, France (February 8, 1992 to February 23, 1992)
Opening Ceremony: February 8, 1992 (opened by President François Mitterand)
Taker of the Olympic Oath: Surya Bonaly (athlete)
Closing Ceremony: February 23, 1992
Events: 57 in 12 sports
Participants: 1,801 (1,312 men and 488 women) from 64 countries
Youngest Participant: Krisztina Czakó (13 years, 64 days)
Oldest Participant: Michael Juhlin (46 years, 125 days)
Most Medals (Athlete): Yelena Välbe and
Lyubov Yegorova (5 medals)
Most Medals (Country): Germany (26 medals)
[Jean-Claude Killy] was co-president of the Organizing Committee of the 1992 Olympic Winter Games and was directly responsible for convincing the IOC to bring the Games to the Haute-Savoie. As an organizer, Killy was almost as successful as he had been as an Olympic skiier. The Games were awarded to Albertville but they were actually spread over several small towns and villages of the French Savoie in the French Alps. Problems with transportation between the villages were expected but they did not materialize and the Games were extremely well run. Because of the distance between events, there were several small Olympic Villages, instead of a single, central Village.
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Rk | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Germany | 10 | 10 | 6 | 26 |
2 | Unified Team | 9 | 6 | 8 | 23 |
3 | Austria | 6 | 7 | 8 | 21 |
4 | Norway | 9 | 6 | 5 | 20 |
5 | Italy | 4 | 6 | 4 | 14 |
6 | United States | 5 | 4 | 2 | 11 |
7 | France | 3 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
8 | Finland | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
9 | Canada | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
10 | Japan | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
11 | South Korea | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
12 | Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
13 | Sweden | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
14 | Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
15 | China | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
16 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
17 | Luxembourg | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
18 | New Zealand | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
19 | Spain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
20 | North Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |