Feb. 7 to 22, 1998 in 5 venues: Nagano-city, Yamanouchi-city,
Hakuba-mura, Karuizawa-machi and Nozawaonsen-mura.
68 competitions in 7 sporting events including new winter events of curling, snowboarding and
women's ice hockey.
Olympic Winter Games Updates
Medal Standing | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
1.Germany | 12 | 9 | 8 |
2.Norway | 10 | 10 | 5 |
3.Russia | 9 | 6 | 3 |
4.Canada | 6 | 5 | 4 |
5.U.S.A. | 6 | 3 | 4 |
6.Netherlands | 5 | 4 | 2 |
7.Japan | 5 | 1 | 4 |
8.Austria | 3 | 5 | 9 |
9.S.Korea | 3 | 1 | 2 |
10.Italy | 2 | 6 | 2 |
Fact file
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Most number of participants: 2302 athletes from 72 countries took part
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20 world records were broken
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Highest percentage of tickets told: 89 percents
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Total spectators: nearly 1.276 million
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Volunteers: 32,579 people
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Police force: about 6000 officers
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Self Defense Force: 1700
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Revenue: 4.5 billion yen
Winter Paralympics in Nagano Updates
(March 5 to 14)
For info on pre Nagano movements, go to NAGANO ARCHIVE