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The fourteenth installment of the novel the Olympic winter in the city that only a few years after these Games was plagued by a terrible civil war.
Thursday 30 January 2014 14 minutes reading time
Three candidates are presented May 18, 1978 all'80a session of the IOC to Athens to be chosen as the host of the 1984 Winter Olympic Games quattordicesimi. On the first ballot the Japanese Sapporo, which hosted the Olympics white only six years earlier, by 33 votes to prevail but not an absolute majority of 38, the Yugoslav Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina today, it takes 31 and the Swedish Gö teborg 10, in the second round preferences for Scandinavian city to be mostly in Sarajevo who surprisingly won the match by 39 votes against 36 in Sapporo.
For the first time the Winter Games go to a country of the communist bloc even if Yugoslavia is in some ways detached from the rest of the communist countries, Sarajevo then comes after the Summer Games in Moscow 1980 were adversely affected by the boycott, first and foremost, the United States, but this time all the major nations are present and the Games of Sarajevo seem to be those of international hope of a reconciliation, hope we unfortunately fall a few months later, with the Communist bloc boycott of the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. That edition of the Games whites, as opposed to the previous one in Lake Placid, was an organizational success and the public but was seriously affected by bad weather, which hampered especially downhill skiing: the men's downhill was disputed one week after the original date with three postponements, the female came undone and then redone again the next day.
There were still controversy surrounding the issue of professionalism: the rulers of Lake Placid Ingemar Stenmark and Hanni Wenzel were excluded from the first FIS and then by the IOC, hockey players who had signed a professional contract for the NHL, but we were not yet played were admitted to the Olympics, those had signed but we had already played but no. Excluded, but for different reasons, including the rising star of alpine skiing Marc Girardelli, Austrian by birth but by the contrasts of Helmut dad with the federation of his country competed for the colors of Luxembourg and the renunciation of the citizenship of his native country coupled to the not yet received the Grand Duchy put him out of the game. But overall it was a nice edition of the Winter Olympics and it is hard to believe that this has occurred in what was to become only eight years after the main theater of one of the bloodiest civil wars in all of human history.
The events rises to 39: one race in the new program, the women's 20 km cross-country skiing, won, as the other two individual distances reserved for women, the 5 and 10 km, by Marja-Liisa Hamala , inen, Finnish cross-country skier mediocre up to a certain point in his career, then the meeting with her prince charming Harri Kirvesniemi a couple of years before the Games gives the turning point in life is to be competitive in the activity so as to make it become the queen of nordic skiing and absolute of these Olympics, the two finally tie the wedding right at the end of the winter. The women's relay instead wins Norway, Sweden dominates among men with young Gunde Svan, 22, nicknamed "swan", which is gold and silver in the 15 km to 50 in less than 5 seconds from compatriot Thomas Wassberg, the winner of 15 in Lake Placid, the two are part of the winning relay team and the Swedish 30 km as if the award four years before the Soviet Nikolay Zimiatov, his third individual title and fourth in five circles ever.
In large jump duel between the east German Jens Weissflog and the Finnish Matti Nykänen who bring home a gold and a silver in the head, the second from the first beat small trampoline, but the second is inspired by the large trampoline, leaving a great distance everyone, including his main rival. After twenty years, Norway, the country that invented it, back to prevail in the Nordic combined thanks to Tom Sandberg. East Germany imposes itself in the gold medal by breaking the hegemony of the USSR, in addition to the success of the East German Weissflog make a clean sweep in the women's speed skating with Christa Rothenburger winning the 500 meters, Karin Enke 1000 and 1500 after tax in Lake Placid on the shortest distance and Andrea Schöne 3000, in the women's single luge win Steffi Martin, Wolfgang Hoppe is double in the two races of the bob sport in which the Swede Carl-Erik Eriksson is the first to reach level six holdings at the Winter Olympics. Finally, in the artistic female figure skating Katarina Witt enchants all enough to get in the days following his performance of gold about 35,000 love letters.
About people who enchants, the British Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won the gold dance with masterful interpretation and revolutionary to the tune of Ravel's Bolero, the artistic male wins the superfavorito Eve, the American Scott Hamilton, while in the pair continues winning streak at the Olympics in the Soviet Union that comes on six hits in a row thanks to Elena Valova and Oleg Vasilyev. In the Norwegian Eirik Kvalfoss wins biathlon sprint, the West German Peter Angerer the individual and the USSR in the relay, alpine skiing dominate a little 'surprise the U.S. with Bill Johnson, now revived in the limelight just a few weeks before beating all in Wengen, triumphing in the men's downhill, the female giant Debbie Armstrong never won before or after the World Cup, beating the much more accredited compatriot Christine Cooper. It 'also uses two goals in the men's slalom: Mahre twins, after a season in which they did talk about himself only for the exchange of pectoral resulting in disqualification in the slalom in Parpan, suddenly dominate the scene with Phil gold in front of Steve.
The titles of the descent of the giant male and female are targati Switzerland Michela Figini and Max Julen, between the posts baggy men Yugoslavia won its first ever medal at the Winter Olympics, the silver Jure Franko. The Austrian squadron has to settle for a measly bronze, with Anton Steiner in the men's downhill. In the men's speed skating the legacy of Eric Heiden is collected by the Soviet Sergey Fokichev in the 500 meters, from the Canadian Gaétan Boucher in 1000 and 1500, the Swede Tomas Gustafson and the Soviet Igor Malkov on longer distances, Gustafson in the 5000 beats for only 2 cents Malkov that in the 10000 returns his rudeness sopravanzandolo only 5 cents. West Germany won a second gold medal in doubles luge with the Hans and Franz Stanggassinger Wembacher while the USSR, after the slip of Lake Placid, returns to dominate ice hockey overwhelming opponents with 48 goals in 7 matches and conceding only 5 .
Missing two golds Italy that they are also the only two medals of our expedition, one gets to take home the South Tyrolean Paul Hildgartner, our standard-bearer, who won the men's luge after being second in Lake Placid, for him is the second Olympic title in 12 years after the one in doubles in Sapporo with Walter Plaikner. The other, in the women's slalom, if he wins unexpectedly Paola Gizzards, said Paoletti, 19, Bergamo Selvino, yet never better than sixth in the World Cup. Fourth after the first run comeback in the blue mist of the second going to win the first gold for our women's alpine skiing. As far as other notable achievements Italy, Oswald Tötsch you place fifth in the slalom and Alex Giorgi seventh in the giant slalom Paoletti Gizzards Ninna Quario is the seventh and Daniela Zini ninth, then the relay biathlon is fifth.
Summary
14th edition of the Olympic Winter Games
Host city and date of the meeting in Sarajevo (Yugoslavia), 7-19 February 1984
Athletes participating: 1273 (996 men, 277 women)
Participating countries: 49
Italian participants: 74 (59 men, 15 women)
Italian flag-bearer: Paul Hildgartner (luge)
Securities allotted: 39 in 10 sports
Official opening: President Mika Spiljak
Olympic athletes' oath: Bojan Kriaj (Alpine skiing)
Olympic Oath of Judges: Dragan Perović
Last torchbearer: Sandra Dubravcic
The medal
East Germany: 9 gold 9 silver 6 bronze
Soviet Union: 6 gold 10 silver 9 bronzes
United States: 4 gold 4 silver
Finland: 4 gold 3 silver 6 bronze
Sweden: 4 gold 2 silver 2 bronze
Norway: 3 gold 2 silver 4 bronze
Switzerland: 2 gold 2 silver 1 bronze
West Germany: 2 gold 1 silver 1 bronze
Canada: 2 gold 1 silver 1 bronze
Italy: 2 gold
Great Britain: 1 gold
Czechoslovakia: 2 silver 4 bronze
France: 1 silver 2 bronze
Japan: 1 silver
Yugoslavia: 1 silver
Liechtenstein: 2 bronze
Austria: 1 bronze
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