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The Olympic Games ( Summer and Winter) have been televised in the United States since 1960. It has become one of the most popular programs on USA television every four and then two years. The Olympics has been exclusively broadcast on NBC and NBCUniversal 's TV networks in the United States since 1988 for the Summer Olympics and 2002 for the ...
Feb 12, 2013 · The 1988 legacy is due in no small part to the endowment funds given after the closing ceremonies to the Calgary Olympic Development Association. The organization, rebranded WinSport a few years ...
1988 Summer Olympics medal table. This is the full table of the medal table of the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul . These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country. The number of silvers is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given ...
Feb 15, 2018 · Thirty years ago, the Jamaican bobsled team competed for the first time in the Winter Olympics. Theirs is the ultimate underdog story: A group of guys with Olympic aspirations in a country known ...
Feb 16, 2018 · Chun pursued a plan by his predecessor-General Park Chung Hee, assassinated in 1979-to host the Olympics and submitted what would become the successful bid for the 1988 Summer Games to the International Olympic Committee in September 1981. "At the time, the world saw South Korea and Taiwan as the great miracle economies, much like China is now.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee (born March 3, 1962) is a retired American track and field athlete, ranked among the all-time greats in the heptathlon as well as long jump. She won three gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals in those two events at four different Olympic Games.
