Unified Team (EUN)

Because of the Soviet revolution of 1991, the Unified Team represented the Commonwealth of Independent States at the 1992 Olympics in both Albertville and Barcelona. At Albertville, the Unified Team was a loose confederation of five former Soviet republics – Russia, Belarus (formerly Byelorussia), Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. At Barcelona, the Unified Team had representatives from all the former Soviet republics, save for the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, which competed independently. The Unified Team at Barcelona also included athletes from Georgia, which had not joined the Commonwealth of Independent States. In 1994 the republics began to compete independently. At Barcelona the Unified Team won 112 medals and 49 golds, while at Albertville they won 23 medals and 9 golds. The acronym for the Unified Team was EUN, which stood for the French name for the team, Équipe Unifée.