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Olympic Games- 1992 Barcelona

Olympic Games- 1992 Barcelona

It was fitting that as Barcelona hosted the twenty fifth celebration, that these games were opened on July 25th by King Carlos of Spain.

One of the memorable phrases of this game was 'Dream Team', which referred to the all star American Basketball team.  In each games politics plays a part, but in the case of Barcelona it was good news, South Africa returned to the fold, and Germany sent a united team.

Linford Christie of Great Britain won the 100m 'Blue Riband' sprint.  While Evelyn Ashford won her 4th gold medal in the 4 x 100m relay.

In marathon, the Olympic finale, Young-jo Hwang made history for Korea. His marathon victory came 56 years after Kee-Jung Sohn won the Olympic marathon in Berlin in 1936 as a member of the Japanese team.

This time, as a member of the Korean team, Hwang came in first to the applause from about 80,000 spectators in the stands of the Montjuic Stadium. The 80-year-old Sohn was moved to tears to watch Hwang crowned with the laurel of victory on the recovered its status as a marathon power.

Perhaps the greatest shock was Sergey Bubka failure to win the poll vault.  Although he broke the world record on numerous occasions, he froze on the most important stage of all.

There have been famous gymnasts such as Olga Korbut and Nadia Comaneci; but none has equalled Vitaly Scherbo achievement of winning 6 gold medals in the same Olympiad.