Lillehammer, the host of the 1994 Winter Olympic Games, is in which country?
1994 Winter Olympics 1994 Winter Olympics The 1994 Winter Olympics (), officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games (French: Les "XVIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver"), was a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 12 to 27 February 1994 in and around Lillehammer, Norway. Lillehammer failed to win the bid for the 1992 event, losing to Albertville. Lillehammer was awarded the 1994 Winter Olympics in 1988, after beating Anchorage, United States; Östersund, Sweden; and Sofia, Bulgaria. Lillehammer is the northernmost city to ever host the Winter Games and the Olympic Games overall. The Games were the first to be held in a different year from
Turkey at the 1994 Winter Olympics Turkey has only missed three editions of the Winter Games, the 1952, 1972, and the 1980 Winter Olympics. Thus Lillehammer was Turkey's 11th appearance at a Winter Olympics. The 1994 Winter Olympics were held from 12–27 February 1994, a total of 1,737 athletes representing 67 National Olympic Committees took part. The Turkish delegation to Lillehammer consisted of a single athlete, cross-country skier Mithat Yıldırım. He was chosen as the flag bearer for the opening ceremony. Mithat Yıldırım was 28 at the time of the Lillehammer Olympics, and he had previously represented Turkey two years before in the 1992 Albertville Olympics.