Baseball was open only to male amateurs in 1992 and 1996.

For the first time in Olympic history, all 197 recognized National Olympic Committees were represented at the Games.Beach volleyball, mountain biking, lightweight rowing and women's football made their first appearance Each team that qualified for the football tournament was allowed to include three professionals, regardless of age or olympic experience.Some demonstration sports were included in various editions of the Olympic Games up until 1992.



However, on 27 July tragedy struck when a terrorist bomb exploded in the Centennial Olympic Park.

However, the organisation of these demonstrations created a lot of extra work for the OCOGs, which had to provide services that were almost identical to those for the sports on the Olympic programme.

Wearing her practice shorts and a t-shirt, Csurgo hurried over to the court and actually won the match.In the second round of the middleweight (82kg) freestyle wrestling tournament, Elmadi Jabrailov of Kazakhstan faced Lucman Jabrailov of Moldova.

In 1996 Michelle Smith became the first Irish female athlete to win a gold medal, capturing three gold medals in swimming, though she was later banned for four years from competition after being found guilty of manipulating a drug-test sample.

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The Organising Committees for the Olympic Games (OCOGs) could integrate demonstration sports into the Olympic programme. The torch mark's flames gradually evolve into a perfect star symbolizing each athlete's pursuit of excellence.

The format was similar to 1988 and 1992, but with a slight change.

There were 12 teams entered with two preliminary round-robin pools of six teams each. Volume 3 was bilingual.

Before he began his streak in 1964, he was a reserve in 1960.Tennis player Virag Csurgo (HUN) was entered in the doubles event only.

The work consisted of three volumes (Planning and organizing; The centennial Olympic Games; The competition results).




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Selected over Athens, Greece, to host the Centennial Summer Games, Atlanta staged one of the most extravagant Games in Olympic history. There were French and English box sets, published in 1997.







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Therefore, at the 95th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), held in 1989 in Puerto Rico, it was decided that demonstration sports would be eliminated definitively from the 1996 Atlanta Games onwards.















The Atlanta Games were the 23rd occurrence of the modern Olympic Games.

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Inevitably, things soon became competitive and, in 1846, the first swimming championship was held in Australia. There were French and English box sets, published in 1997.





Two people died and a further 110 people were injured.For the first time in Olympic history, all 197 recognised National Olympic Committees were represented at the Games.





He repeated those feats at the London 2012…






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