What is being called the first Green Winter Olympics?
The XVII Olympic Winter Games (English: the XVII Olympic Winter Games), commonly known as the Lillehammer Winter Olympics.
Although many events are held in Lillehammer, ice skating events are held in Hamar, some ice hockey events are held in Gjävik, and alpine skiing events are held in Øyer and Ringebu. 67 National Olympic Committees and 1,737 athletes participated in 6 sports and 61 events. Fourteen countries participated in the Winter Olympics for the first time, nine of which were former Soviet Union countries.
The Olympics also introduced stricter qualifying rules, reducing the number of underperforming competitors from warm-weather countries. New events are two new distances for short track speed skating and aerials, while speed skating is moved indoors.
Nearly 2 million people watched the Games, which were the first to bring the Olympic Truce into effect. The Olympic Games were followed by the 1994 Winter Paralympic Games from March 10 to 19?
Manuela Di Centa and Lyubov Yegorova dominated women's cross-country skiing, collecting five and four medals for Italy and Russia respectively.
More than 100,000 spectators watched Italy beat Norway by 0.4 seconds in the men's 4 x 10km relay. Vreni Schneider earned a full set of medals for Switzerland in alpine skiing, while Norway rounded out the podium in the men's combined event.
Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan wins silver medal in women's singles despite attack Weeks before Olympics, Tonya Harding's partner Shane Stant; 16-year-old Oksana Baiul beat Kerrigan to win gold This marked the first time that the Ukrainian national anthem was played at the Olympic Games.
Johann Olav Koss won three speed skating gold medals for Norway, while 13-year-old Kim Yoon-mi from South Korea became the youngest ever Olympic gold medalist.
Sweden defeated Canada in a dramatic penalty shootout in the ice hockey final. Russia won the most events with 11 gold medals, while Norway won the most medals with 26.
Costs and Cost Overruns
The Oxford Olympics Study determined that the final cost of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer in 2015 was $2.2 billion, with an actual cost overrun rate of 277%.
This only includes sports-related costs, i.e. operating costs incurred by the organizing committee to stage the Games, such as technology, transportation, labour, administration, security, catering, ceremonies, and medical services, as well as hosting Direct capital costs incurred by cities and states or private investors to build competition venues, Olympic villages, international broadcast centres, media and press centres.
Indirect capital costs do not include, for example, road, rail or airport infrastructure, or hotel upgrades or other business investments incurred in preparation for the Games but not directly related to hosting the Games.
Costs and cost overruns in Lillehammer in 1994 compared to costs and cost overruns of $2.5 billion in Vancouver in 2010, and costs and cost overruns in Sochi in 2014 of $5.1 billion and 289%, The latter is the most expensive Olympics to date.
Since 1960, the average cost of the Winter Olympics has been $3.1 billion, with an average cost overrun rate of 142%.