Venues of the 1992 Winter Olympics

Albertville is part of the Rhône-Alpes region in France that had hosted the Winter Olympics twice with Chamonix in 1924 and Grenoble in 1968.[12][13] Jean-Claude Killy, the triple gold medalist in the men's alpine skiing event at the 1968 Grenoble Games, had become a successful businessman when he suggested the idea of the 1992 Winter Olympics in December 1981 to Michel Barnier, a politician in the Savoie department.[13] A proposal was sent to the Albertville town council six months later, followed regional studies done during 1983-5.[13] Presentation and media operations for the bid took place from 1983 to its awarding in 1986 by the International Olympic Committee.[13] After five rounds of voting, Albertville was selected 51-25-9 over Sofia, Bulgaria & Falun, Sweden.[13]

Val-d'Isère had its first alpine skiing World Cup events run in December 1968.[14] The Olympic test held there in December 1990 was won by 1980 Winter Olympics men's downhill gold medalist Leonhard Stock of Austria.[15]

Tignes hosted of the first FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships in February 1986.[16]

Construction on most of the venues took place between 1987 and mid 1990 in time for the late 1990 and early 1991 test events.[17]

This was the last Winter Olympics in which speed skating was held outdoors.[18] As a result, weather played a factor in three of the ten events run. In the women's 500 m on 10 February, the start of the event was delayed one hour the let the outdoor oval ice harden.[19] Warm weather delayed the women's 1,500 m event for an hour on the 12th.[20] The following day, the men's 5,000 m event was held in a steady rain.[21] Norway's Geir Karlstad, the gold medalist in the men's 5000 m, commented in the post race press conference that "I didn't like soft ice up to now, but now I do".[21] This led to the International Skating Union passing a rule after the 1992 Winter Games stating that all Olympic speed skating competitions should be held indoors which it has been since the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.[18]

For the alpine skiing downhill courses, complaints were given that the courses were too steep.[22] On the men's side, the complaints from downhill skiers that it was more like a super giant slalom course rather than a classical downhill course.[22] The women's course was 2.77 km (1.72 mi) long and had the steepest vertical drop ever at 828 m (2,717 ft).[22] Further making the women's downhill a challenge was an impending snowstorm that forced race officials to move up the start time and send the skiers out at shorter-than-usual intervals.[22] An intermittent fog also set in during the women's downhill.[22]

Cross-country skiing had snowstorm in the men's 10 km, men's 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit, and women's 5 km events.[23] Meanwhile, the course of the biathlon men's 20 km individual event was found to be 0.563 km (0.350 mi) too short.[24]

The men's freestyle skiing event had France's Edgar Grospiron as its winner.[25] Grospiron's fan broke through the security fence that lined the course to embrace the champion and hoist Grospiron on their shoulders.[25] Meanwhile, the women's event was won by Donna Weinbrecht of the United States while skiing to an accompaniment of The Ramones' "Rock 'n' Roll High School" in a snowstorm.[26]

La Plagne hosted the skeleton part of the FIBT World Championships in 1993.[27] The venue was part of Annecy's unsuccessful bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics in July 2011. If selected, La Plagne would have hosted the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton events.[28]

Val-d'Isère hosted the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in 2009.[29] The venue continues to host be a host of the annual FIS Alpine Ski World Cup.[30]

The speed skating venue was converted into an athletics and football venue after the Olympics. Olympic Hall is in use for ice hockey and figure skating as of 2010.[31] The ceremonial stadium was removed following the 1992 Winter Olympics though the monument that was at the ceremony remains as of 2010.