 Originally proposed in 1981, Lillehammer's bid for the 1992 Winter Olympics was unsuccessful. Lillehammer then made a new bid for the 1994 Olympics, which it won on 15 September 1988. Venue construction ran from spring 1990 to December 1993, with all the competition and most of the non-competition venues purpose-built for the games. For the first time in Olympic history, environmental and sustainability issues were considered in venue construction.
