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Apr 19, 2024 · Seoul. Seoul 1988 Olympic Games, athletic festival held in Seoul that took place September 17–October 2, 1988. The Seoul Games were the 21st occurrence of the modern Olympic Games. After boycotts had marred the previous two Olympiads, political problems threatened to return to center stage at the 1988 Games. Violent student riots took place ...
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Partnering with researchers at Georgia Tech and a coalition of big telecommunications and technology companies, Atlanta’s Olympic organizers harnessed the impressive powers of burgeoning technology in the early stages of the city’s bid process. In the late 1980s, Georgia Tech’s then-president Pat Crecine pitched that researchers from the school’s I...
“Online” was a new venue for Atlanta’s Olympic committee and media outlets to contend with in the years prior to the summer of 1996. Partnerships in the technology field once again pushed organizers to try something new and cutting edge. By the 1990s, IBM had held a multi-decade corporate relationship with the Olympic Games. The tech giant establis...
The website was just one component of IBM’s big stretch for the Games in Atlanta. Around the time of the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway, the company convinced the International Olympic Committee to let IBM provide all IT infrastructure for the Games. This meant the company typically in charge of just providing computing hardware would dev...
Like other Olympic Games, Atlanta was a stage for advancements and achievements of all kinds. The advent of the commercial internet captured much of the attention, but the summer of ’96 introduced innovations across the board. Georgia Tech’s partnership generated new traffic management technologies, solar power efficiency experiments, and athletic ...
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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 ...
- Harmony and Progress, (화합과 전진)
- Seoul, South Korea
- 237 in 23 sports (31 disciplines)
- Seoul Olympic Stadium
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Sep 16, 1988 · Seoul 1988 Olympic Games Legacy. Discover the lasting legacy that this edition of the Olympic Games created for its hosts. Debuts and Firsts. For the first time, all three medallists in equestrian dressage were women. Swedish fencer Kerstin Palm became the first woman to take part in seven Olympic Games, and table tennis made its Olympic debut.
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 ...
The 1988 Summer Olympics were held in Seoul, South Korea from September 17 to October 2, 1988. This was the first time that the Summer Olympics were held in South Korea, and the first time they were held in Asia since the 1964 games in Tokyo, Japan. The games featured 237 events in 27 sports and were attended by around 8,391 athletes from 159 ...
