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The 1992 Summer Olympic Games (Spanish: "Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992"; Catalan: "Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992"), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event played in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain in 1992. Beginning in 1994, the International Olympic Committee decided to hold the games in alternating even-numbered years; as a result, the 1992 Summer Olympics were the last competition to be staged in the same year as the Winter Olympics. The games were the first to be unaffected by boycotts since 1972. 

Barcelona is the second-largest city in Spain, and the birthplace of then-IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch. The city was also a host for the 1982 FIFA World Cup. On October 17, 1986, Barcelona was selected to host the 1992 Summer Games over Amsterdam, Belgrade, Birmingham, Brisbane, and Paris, during the 91st IOC Session in Lausanne, Switzerland. Barcelona had previously bid for the 1936 Summer Olympics, but they ultimately lost to Berlin. 



The 1992 Summer Olympic programme featured 257 events in the following 25 sports: 

A total of 169 nations sent athletes to compete in the 1992 Summer Games. 

With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, twelve of the fifteen new states formed a Unified Team, while the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania each had their own teams for the first time since 1936. For the first time, Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina competed as independent nations after their separation from Socialist Yugoslavia, and Namibia and the unified team of Yemen (previously North and South Yemen) also made their Olympic debuts. (End of story)

Provide your best guess for the following question. Give ONLY the guess, no other words or explanation.

For example:

Guess: <most likely guess, as short as possible; not a complete sentence, just the guess!>

Here are a few examples of questions and answers:

Question: What year were the Olympics held in Barcelona?
Guess: 1992

Question: Summer or winter?
Guess: Summer

Question: What were they officially called?
Guess: Games of the XXV Olympiad

Question: What were the 1992 Olympics the last to do?
Guess: be staged in the same year as the Winter Olympics

Question: Is Barcelona Spain's largest city?
Guess: No

Question: What are they?
Guess: second-largest

Question: Who was born there?
Guess: Juan Antonio Samaranch.

Question: What was his title?
Guess: then-IOC president

Question: What did the city host in 1982?
Guess: FIFA World Cup

Question: When was the city selected to host the olympics?
Guess: 1986

Question: What other year did they try to host them?
Guess: 1936  Olympics

Question: Who did they lose to?
Guess: Berlin

Question: How many events were in the 1992 games?
Guess: 257

Question: How many different sports?
Guess: 25

Now answer the following question in the same format.

Question: How many countries competed?

169 nations