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The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games was a winter multi-sport event held between 8 and 19 February 1984 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. It was the first Olympics to take place in the Balkans since the first Olympic Games in Athens. The Games brought together 1272 athletes from 49 countries. Egypt, British Virgin Islands, Monaco, Puerto Rico and Senegal participated for the first time in the Olympic Winter Games. The 1984 Winter Olympics, considered a success, made it possible to modernize Sarajevo and develop winter sports in Yugoslavia, but the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which broke out in 1992 heavily damaged the city and the Olympic facilities.