From 12 to 27 February, 1994 – Lillehammer (Norway) hosted the XVII winter Olympic games. Lillehammer is the second Norwegian city, received right to host winter Olympic games. In 1952 the games were hosted by Oslo. In competitions for 61 Olympic medal complexes the Games attended 1923 athletes (522 women) from 67 countries of the world. The number of participants was so big, as never before. The growth of participating countries was mostly stipulated by political restructure in Europe: at first time as separate teams participated the Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Czech Republic, Slovakia and a row of other states. The surprise of the Games was the participation of representative team of south state – Uzbekistan. Seven our athletes: Aliki Sergaadu, Dinara Nurbaeva, Muslim Sattarov, Yuris Razgulayev – figure skating, Larisa Udodova and Dmitriy Brener – mogul, Lina Cheryazova – freestyle successfully debuted in winter Olympic starts. Triumphal was performance of Lina Cheryazova. By this time, she was a leader of world sport in her discipline. In 1993 she won World’s championship and became possessor of World’s Cup Grand Prix 1992-1993. In winter season of 1993-1994 in strong competition again she achieved an outstanding success, won World’s Cup Grand Prix in freestyle. But the main victory for her was Golden Olympic medal in freestyle in Lillehammer. It was the first time at the Olympic games, when there was sounding the Hymn of independent Uzbekistan and lifting of the state flag. Moreover, the triumph was for the medal tally, Uzbekistan was 14 among 67 participating states. Our debutants have left behind many north sport powers. Since the first gold Olympic medal for Uzbekistan, first representation of Uzbekistan at the Olympic games as a separate team there are new relations of Uzbekistan sport with international Olympic movement. Juan Antonio Samaranch, the IOC Ex-President highly appreciated the success of Olympians of the geographical zone, that did not attend winter games. It broke past imagines, that winter games is prerogative of north countries. A cute politician, Juan Antonio Samaranch appreciated the significance of this contribution of Uzbekistan in the Olympic movement and made a number of steps on cooperation’s strengthening between IOC and our Olympians. He visited Uzbekistan and met with Mr. Islam Karimov, the president of the Republic of Uzbekistan. One of the totals of their meeting was decision on Central Asian games hosting.