1988 Seoul
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"Rivalry Is There But...": Arshad Nadeem On Competition With Neeraj Chopra
Arshad Nadeem is Pakistan's first individual medallist since the 1988 Seoul Olympics where boxer Hussain Shah claimed a middle-weight bronze.
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Japan "Cornered" On Tokyo Olympics, Says National Committee Member
Japan Olympic Committee member Kaori Yamaguchi, who won judo bronze in Seoul in 1988, described "anxiety and distrust" between the public and the government over the Tokyo Games.
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Fall of Berlin Wall and Hopes of Sports Superpower Status
German officials talked about staging a historic Olympics in East and West Berlin to celebrate the end of the Cold War. The rest of the world added the 102 medals which the GDR won at the 1988 Seoul Olympics to the 40 won by West Germany and announced the birth of a new sporting superpower to threaten Soviet and American supremacy.
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Disgraced Ben Johnson turns anti-drugs campaigner
The Jamaica-born Canadian athlete was sensationally stripped of his 100m gold in the 1988 Seoul Olympics after testing positive for stanozolol, a banned anabolic steroid.
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Pole vault legend Sergei Bubka in race for International Olympic Committee presidency
Bubka, who is also deputy president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), won Olympic pole vault gold at Seoul in 1988 and six world championship titles during his career.
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Aleksandr Karelin (Russia)
Unbeaten in 13 years, Siberian-born Karelin won his first gold in the super heavyweight division of Greco-Roman wrestling in the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
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Olympics History: 1988 SEOUL
Ben Johnson smashed his way to a crushing win in the 100 metres and was then exposed as sport's biggest cheat.
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"Rivalry Is There But...": Arshad Nadeem On Competition With Neeraj Chopra
Arshad Nadeem is Pakistan's first individual medallist since the 1988 Seoul Olympics where boxer Hussain Shah claimed a middle-weight bronze.
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Japan "Cornered" On Tokyo Olympics, Says National Committee Member
Japan Olympic Committee member Kaori Yamaguchi, who won judo bronze in Seoul in 1988, described "anxiety and distrust" between the public and the government over the Tokyo Games.
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Fall of Berlin Wall and Hopes of Sports Superpower Status
German officials talked about staging a historic Olympics in East and West Berlin to celebrate the end of the Cold War. The rest of the world added the 102 medals which the GDR won at the 1988 Seoul Olympics to the 40 won by West Germany and announced the birth of a new sporting superpower to threaten Soviet and American supremacy.
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Disgraced Ben Johnson turns anti-drugs campaigner
The Jamaica-born Canadian athlete was sensationally stripped of his 100m gold in the 1988 Seoul Olympics after testing positive for stanozolol, a banned anabolic steroid.
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Pole vault legend Sergei Bubka in race for International Olympic Committee presidency
Bubka, who is also deputy president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), won Olympic pole vault gold at Seoul in 1988 and six world championship titles during his career.
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Aleksandr Karelin (Russia)
Unbeaten in 13 years, Siberian-born Karelin won his first gold in the super heavyweight division of Greco-Roman wrestling in the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
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Olympics History: 1988 SEOUL
Ben Johnson smashed his way to a crushing win in the 100 metres and was then exposed as sport's biggest cheat.
