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1972 Sapporo Winter

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THE XIth OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES


  For the first time, the Winter Games were awarded to a country from the Asian continent, Japan, which had successfully organised the Summer Games eight years earlier in Tokyo. It is a large city, larger than Grenoble, hence an even greater dispersion of competitions.
Dates: February 3 - 13, 1972
N.O.C. participants: 35
Number of sports: 6
Number of contests: 35
Number of athletes: 1006
Men: 801
Women: 205
Volonteers: 0
Media: 65535
Opening: L'Emperor Hiro-Hito
Oath: Keiichi Suzuki
Number of torch bearer: 0
Last torch bearer: Hideki Takada
Bids towns: Banff (CAN), Lahti/Are (SWE), Salt Lake City (USA)