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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 ...
Griffith Joyner’s total haul was three gold medals and one silver. Unfortunately, the biggest media event of the 1988 Olympic Games was the disqualification of Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson, after he had won the 100 metres in the world record time of 9.79, defeating Carl Lewis in the process. A few days later, Johnson tested positive for ...
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After Seoul first won its bid to host the 1988 Olympics, North Korea began to campaign — unsuccessfully — to co-host them.The dispute turned tragic a few years later. On Nov. 29, 1987, Korean Air Flight 858 from Baghdad to Seoul disappeared off the Burmese Coast, along with its 115 passengers. The wreckage would later be discovered in the Andaman S...
At the same time, the 1988 Olympics were seen by many as a sign that tense Cold War relations were thawing. The U.S. and the Soviet competed against one another at a Summer Olympics for the first time since 1976, and the Games helped the host country open up “diplomatic trade and cultural relations” with nations it had been previously cut off from ...
Of course, South Korea’s ascent wasn’t the only inspirational story of 1988. There were plenty inside the arenas. American Jackie Joyner-Kersee set a world record for heptathlon that still hasn’t been beat. In one of the springboard preliminary rounds, American diver Greg Louganis hit his head on the diving board while doing a somersault. Just minu...
Step into 1988, a year of groundbreaking progress and global events. Witness the birth of the Internet as we know it today, bringing a new era of global conn...
Aug 11, 2020 · AP WAS THERE: 1988 Seoul Olympics. AP. 0:04. 0:44. EDITORS — With the Tokyo Olympics postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, The Associated Press is looking back at the history ...
Nov 5, 2013 · The Internet of 1988. November 05, 2013. Download (EN) The Century Foundation. This week is the 25th anniversary of the Robert Morris worm, the first large scale malware on the internet, before there was a world wide web. I covered the Internet as a cub reporter at the Washington Post, and it was for many readers (and journalists) an intro to ...
The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad and commonly known as Seoul 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). 237 events were held and 27,221 volunteers helped to prepare the Olympics.
