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1 Highlights

• For the first time, the Winter Olympics were not held in the same year as the Games of the Olympiad.
• The Olympic flame was brought into the stadium by a ski jumperSki jumping is a winter sport in which skiers go down a hill with a take-off ramp (the jump), attempting to go as far as possible. In addition to the length, referees give points for style, on a scale from 1 to 20. The skis used for ski jumping are wide a.
• Local hero Johann Olav KossJohann Olav Koss (born October 29, 1968, in Drammen) is a Norwegian speed skater, considered to be one of the best in history. In 1994, the final year of his career, he also gained fame outside the speed skating world by winning three gold medals at the 1 won three speed skatingGaetan Boucher training for the 1976 Olympics Speed skating (as well Speedskating is a form of ice skating in which the competitors attempt to travel a certain distance over the ice as quickly as possible. Related sports are short track speed skating and events, setting three world records.
• Vreni SchneiderVerena "Vreni" Schneider (born November 26 1964 in Elm) is a former ski racer from Switzerland. She is the most successful alpine ski racer of her country, the second most successful ski racer in the world (after Annemarie Moser-Proll) and was elected "Sw won a complete set of medals in alpine skiingAlpine skiing (or downhill skiing is a recreational activity and sport involving sliding down snow-covered hills with long, thin skis attached to each foot. Alpine skiing evolved from cross-country skiing when ski lift infrastructure was developed at moun and Manuela Di Centa medaled in all five cross-country skiing events. Myriam Bédard won both women's individual biathlon races.
• Gustav Weder and Donat Acklin became the first repeat winners of the two-man bobsleigh. Pairs skaters Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov repeated their 1988 Winter Olympics
• A massive Norwegian crowd saw their relay team being beaten by the Italians in the final metres of the cross country skiing relay. The crowd fell silent, but only briefly.
• A month before the games were due to begin, Tonya Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly clubbed fellow female figure skater Nancy Kerrigan in the knee. In the end Nancy Kerrigan went on to win the silver medal, behind Oksana Baiul of Ukraine. Tonya Harding finished 8th and was banned from the world of figure skating by the U.S. Figure Skating Association (USFSA) a few years later.
• Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, ice dancing champions ten years earlier, competed again following relaxation of amateurism rules. (They had turned professional in the 1980s.)