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Demonstration sport

Speed skiing, curling, ballet and freestyle aerial skiing were demonstration sports.

During the 95th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), held in Puerto Rico in 1989, it was decided that demonstration sports would be eliminated definitively from the 1996 Atlanta Games onwards.

Up until the 1992 Olympic Games (Barcelona and Albertville), the Organising Committees for the Olympic Games (OCOGs) could integrate demonstration sports into the Olympic programme. However, the organisation of these demonstrations created a lot of extra work for the OCOGs, which had to provide services that were almost identical to those for the sports on the Olympic programme.

Women in biathlon

Women competed in biathlon for the first time.

A new discipline

Short track speed skating with men and women events was included in the Olympic Programme.

Moguls are in

Freestyle skiing event with the moguls included in the Olympic Program.

A unified German team

For the first time since 1936, a unified German team, representing an independent nation, participated in the Games.

Two nations

Croatia and Slovenia participated for the first time as independent nations.

Unified Team

The former Soviet republics formed the so-called Unified Team (EUN).

Back to the Games

The Baltic states (Estonia and Latvia) participated for the first time since 1936, and Lithuania for the first time since 1928.

(Credit: IOC. Click here for further information.)