1984 Winter Olympics session of the International Olympic Committee in Athens, Greece. Sarajevo was selected over Sapporo, Japan (which hosted the games 12 years earlier) by a margin of three votes. Gothenburg was the first city in Sweden to lose a Winter Olympics bid, as other Swedish cities such as Falun and Östersund would later lose their consecutive bids to Calgary, Albertville, Lillehammer, Nagano, and Salt Lake City respectively. Sarajevo, capital of present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, was part of the united Yugoslavia at the time. The torch relay for the 1984 Winter Olympics started in Olympia and then proceeded by airplane to Dubrovnik.
Denmark at the 1960 Winter Olympics is the 1904 Summer Olympics. Denmark then first competed at the Winter Olympics at the 1948 Winter Olympics. Squaw Valley was their third Winter Olympics appearance, having missed the 1956 Winter Olympics. The nation has won at least one medal at every Summer Olympics they have attended, but have won a Winter Olympics medal only once, in curling at the 1998 Winter Olympics. The 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Olympics were held from 18–28 February 1960; 665 athletes competed, representing 30 National Olympic Committees The only athlete Denmark sent to Squaw Valley was speed skater Kurt Stille. Kurt Stille was 25