The 1996 Summer Olympics were held in Atlanta, Georgia, marking the centennial of the modern Olympic movement since the 1896 Athens Games. The Games were marred by a bombing at Centennial Olympic Park that killed two people and injured over a hundred others. Considerable criticism was also directed at the heavy commercialization of the Atlanta Games, though the event drew record numbers of participating nations and athletes at the time.
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The 1996 Summer Olympics were held in Atlanta, Georgia, marking the centennial of the modern Olympic movement since the 1896 Athens Games. The Games were marred by a bombing at Centennial Olympic Park that killed two people and injured over a hundred others. Considerable criticism was also directed
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View the SourceKlaus Balkenhol (Wikipedia)
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He also received a gold medal with the German team in 1996.
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She won six Olympic gold medals in her career, four of which she won at the 1996 Summer Olympics, making her the first American woman to accomplish such a feat and the most successful athlete at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
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Johnson is the only male athlete to win both the 200 meters and 400 meters events at the same Olympics, a feat he accomplished at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
Wikipedia: Svetlana Khorkina
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She competed in three Summer Olympics: 1996 Summer Olympics, 2000 Summer Olympics, and 2004 Summer Olympics.
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She was a member of the Magnificent Seven, the victorious all-around women's gymnastics team that represented the United States at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
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He competed in two Olympic Games, winning a team silver at the 1996 Summer Olympics and an individual gold and team bronze at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
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She also competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics, 2000 Summer Olympics, 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics.
Wikipedia: Denis Pankratov
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Denis Pankratov (Russian: Денис Панкратов; born 4 July 1974) is a retired Russian butterfly swimmer of the 1990s, who was best known for winning the butterfly double at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States in a unique style.
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He won three Olympic medals in C-1 1000 m at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics.
Gal Fridman - Wikipedia
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Fridman won a bronze medal in the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics, and a gold medal in the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics.
István Kovács (boxer) (Wikipedia)
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He is a Secretary General of the AIBA. As an amateur, he won the bantamweight gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and was a world champion at the 1991 World Amateur Boxing Championships in flyweight and at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships in featherweight.
Georgi Kandelaki (Wikipedia)
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He competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics, at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships he became the first Georgian to win a World Championship, and from 2002 to 2003 held the World Boxing Union heavyweight title.
Frank Busemann (Wikipedia)
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After his surprising decathlon silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics with his personal best of 8706 points he became one of Germany's most popular sportsmen.
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