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Also known as Lake Placid 1980, XIII Olympic Winter Games

13th edition of Winter Olympics, in Lake Placid, USA

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The 1980 Winter Olympics were the 13th edition of the Winter Games, held in Lake Placid, USA. This international sporting event brought together winter athletes from around the world to compete in various cold-weather sports.

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Official name
XIII. Olympesch Wanterspiller
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edition number
13
start time
1980-02-14
end time
1980-02-23
point in time
1980-02-00
Commons category
1980 Winter Olympics
number of participants
1072
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The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially the XIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Lake Placid 1980, were an international multi-sport event held from February 13 to 24, 1980, in Lake Placid, New York, United States.

Lake Placid was elected as the host city for the 1980 Winter Games at the 75th International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Vienna, Austria, in 1974. This marked the second time the Upstate New York village hosted the Winter Games, after 1932. The only other candidate city to bid for the 1980 games, Vancouver–Garibaldi, withdrew before the final vote.

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