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1988 XV: 13 February 1988: 28 February 1988: Seoul South Korea: Asia XXIV: 17 September 1988: 2 October 1988: Albertville France: 1992: Europe XVI: 8 February 1992: 23 February 1992: Barcelona Spain: XXV: 25 July 1992: 9 August 1992: Lillehammer Norway: 1994 XVII: 12 February 1994: 27 February 1994: Atlanta United States: 1996: North America ...
The 1988 Summer Olympics (Korean: 1988년 하계 올림픽), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad (제24회 올림픽경기대회) and commonly known as Seoul 1988 (서울 1988), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. 159 nations were represented at the games by a total of 8,391 athletes (6,197 men and 2,194 women ...
Feb 8, 2018 · If you think North and South Korea relations are tense ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics, see what happened at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. Plus, two other things to know about the last time...
1960 Summer Olympics. CBS paid $394,000 ($3.11 million in 2023) for the exclusive rights to broadcast the Games in the United States. This was the first Summer Olympic games to be telecast in North America. In addition to CBS in the United States, the Olympics were telecast for the first time in Canada (on CBC Television) and in Mexico (through ...
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- 1932 Winter Olympics: Lake Placid, New York. In 1932, the small town of Lake Placid, N.Y., hosted the winter Olympics. More than 350 athletes from 17 countries gathered to compete in a Games officially opened by Franklin D. Roosevelt -- the then-governor of New York -- on Feb.
- 1932 Summer Olympics: Los Angeles, California. Given that the location was in a relatively remote region of California, and 1932 was the middle of the Great Depression, participation in the Los Angeles Olympics was the lowest since 1904 -- only half the number of athletes participated as those who did four years prior.
- 1960 Winter Olympics: Squaw Valley, California. Squaw Valley put forward a bid to the International Olympic Committee in 1955 before the resort even existed.
- 1980 Winter Olympics: Lake Placid, New York. Almost 50 years after Lake Placid’s first time hosting, the Olympics returned in 1980. It was the first Games to utilize snow machines to create artificial snow to ensure the best possible conditions for its events.
Each telecast had a different primetime host(s): Paula Zahn and Tim McCarver in 1992, Greg Gumbel in 1994, and Jim Nantz in 1998. As with NBC, CBS decided that it needed help to defray the increasing costs of broadcast rights.
For the 1988 Summer Olympics, a total of thirty-one sports venues were used. South Korea hosted its first World Championships in 1978 in shooting sports. Three years later, Seoul was awarded the 1988 Summer Olympics. Many of the venues constructed for the 1988 Games were completed two years earlier in time for the Asian Games.
