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1993 Sep 23 |
Sydney, Australia, was selected to host the 2000 Summer Olympics, beating Beijing by 2 votes. It was later revealed that 2 African members of the IOC had been bribed the night before the vote. Links: Australia, Olympics, Corruption 
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1994 Feb 12 |
The XVII Winter Olympic Games opened in Lillehammer, Norway. The official song was "Fire in Your Heart." Links: Olympics, Norway
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1994 Feb 13 |
At the Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway, American Tommy Moe won the men's downhill, defeating local hero Kjetil Andre Aamodt by 0.004 seconds. Links: USA, Olympics, Norway
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1994 Feb 14 |
At the Winter Olympics in Norway, speedskater Dan Jansen slipped and fell during the 500 meters race. Links: Olympics, Norway, Skating
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1994 Feb 16 |
Figure skaters Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan encountered each other at the Winter Olympic Games in Norway before posing for the U.S. team photograph. Links: USA, Olympics, Norway, Skating
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1994 Feb 18 |
At the Winter Olympic Games in Norway, speedskater Dan Jansen finally won a gold medal, breaking the world record in the 1,000 meters. Links: USA, Olympics, Norway, Skating
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1994 Feb 19 |
American speedskater Bonnie Blair won the fourth Olympic gold medal of her career as she won the 500-meter race in Lillehammer, Norway. Links: USA, Olympics, Norway, Skating
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1994 Feb 23 |
Nancy Kerrigan led the women's figure skating short program at the Winter Olympics in Norway, while Tonya Harding placed tenth. Links: USA, Olympics, Norway, Skating
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1994 Feb 25 |
At the Winter Olympics in Norway, Oksana Baiul of Ukraine won the gold medal in ladies' figure skating while Nancy Kerrigan won the silver and Chen Lu of China the bronze; Tonya Harding came in eighth. Links: Ukraine, USA, China, Olympics, Norway, Skating
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1994 Feb 27 |
The Winter Olympic Games ended in Lillehammer, Norway. Links: Olympics, Norway
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1994 |
Olav Koss announced that he would donate Olympic awards from the Norwegian government, totaling over $100,000, to an organization called Olympic Aid, dedicated to helping children worldwide. Links: Olympics, Norway, Donation, Skating
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1995 Jun 16 |
Salt Lake City was awarded the XIX Winter Olympic Games for 2002. A scandal later developed over pay-offs. Links: Olympics, Utah
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1995 Nov 20 |
Olympic figure skating champion Sergei Grinkov (28) died of a heart attack in Lake Placid, New York. Links: Olympics, New York, Skating
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1996 Mar 30 |
The Olympic torch was lit in Greece and began its journey to the games in Atlanta, USA. The games will run 17 days from 7/19-8/4. Links: Olympics, Greece
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1996 May 12 |
The house in which Margaret Mitchell wrote "Gone With the Wind" in Atlanta, Georgia, and purchased by Daimler-Benz for $4.5 mil, burned down while under re-construction for the summer Olympics. Links: GeorgiaUS, Olympics, Fire
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1996 Jul 19 |
The 26th summer Olympics opening ceremonies began in Atlanta, Georgia. The photo finish was computerized and in color for track and field events. Beach volleyball was inaugurated as an Olympic sport. Links: GeorgiaUS, Olympics
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1996 Jul 20 |
At the Atlanta Olympics, Renata Mauer of Poland won the Games' first gold, in the 10-meter air rifle. Links: GeorgiaUS, Poland, Olympics
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1996 Jul 21 |
At the Atlanta Olympics, swimmer Tom Dolan gave the United States its first gold, in the 400-meter individual medley. The men's 800-meter freestyle relay team also won. Links: GeorgiaUS, Olympics, Swimmer
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1996 Jul 23 |
At the Atlanta Olympics, Kerri Strug made a heroic final vault despite torn ligaments in her left ankle as the US women gymnasts clinched their first-ever Olympic team gold medal. Links: GeorgiaUS, Olympics
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1996 Jul 26 |
Amy Van Dyken became the first American woman to win four gold medals at a single Olympics as she captured the 50-meter freestyle in Atlanta. Links: GeorgiaUS, Olympics, Swimmer
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1996 Jul 27 |
American Gail Devers won the women's 100-meter dash. Links: GeorgiaUS, Olympics
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1996 Jul 27 |
A pipe bomb was set off at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta. One person, Alice Stubbs Hawthorne (44), was killed and 111 injured. Eric Rudolph was later charged with the bombing. He was arrested May 31, 2003. Rudolph later pleaded guilty to the bombing. Links: GeorgiaUS, USA, Olympics
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1996 Jul 29 |
At the Atlanta Olympics, Carl Lewis won the gold medal in the long jump, becoming only the fifth Olympian to win gold medals in four straight games. Michael Johnson won the 400-meter dash, Allen Johnson the 110-meter hurdles. Links: GeorgiaUS, Olympics
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1996 Jul 30 |
The U.S. Olympic softball team defeated China, 3-1, to win the gold medal. Links: GeorgiaUS, USA, China, Olympics
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1996 Jul 30 |
A federal law enforcement source said security guard Richard Jewell had become a focus of the investigation into the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park. Jewell was later cleared as a suspect, and Eric Rudolph eventually pleaded guilty. Links: GeorgiaUS, USA, Olympics
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1996 Jul |
The Redneck Games started in East Dublin, Ga., as a Southern-fried spoof of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, with a propane torch lighting a ceremonial barbecue grill, the gag games draw tourists like moths to a backyard bug-zapper. Links: GeorgiaUS, USA, Olympics
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1996 Aug 1 |
At the Atlanta Olympics, Michael Johnson broke his world track record by more than three-tenths of a second, winning the 200 meters in 19.32 seconds. Links: GeorgiaUS, Olympics
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1996 Aug 4 |
On the final day of the Atlanta Olympics, Josia Thugwane became the first black South African to win a gold medal as he finished first in the marathon; the U.S. women's basketball team defeated Brazil 111-87 to win the gold; David Reid won the only boxing gold medal for the United States. A three-hour closing ceremony of music, dance and light, attended by at least 80,000 people, brought the games to an official close with a final ceremony. Links: GeorgiaUS, South Africa, Olympics, Basketball
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1996 Dec 9 |
More than four months after the Olympic Games bombing, the FBI posted a $500,000 reward. Richard Jewell, the security guard who was wrongfully accused of planting a bomb during the Olympics, and his lawyers negotiated a $500,000 settlement from NBC. NBC settled to avert a defamation suit. Links: GeorgiaUS, USA, Olympics, FBI
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1997 Sep 5 |
Athens, Greece, won the competition to host the 2004 Summer Olympics. Links: Olympics, Greece
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1998 Jan 31 |
In Japan the XVIII Winter Olympic Games opened in Nagano. Links: Japan, Olympics
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1998 Feb 6 |
The Olympic Games began in Nagano, Japan, and for the first time curling was played as a medal sport. Links: Japan, Olympics
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1998 Feb 7 |
The Winter Olympic Games opened in Nagano, Japan. Links: Japan, Olympics
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1998 Feb 8 |
Olga Danilova of Russia won the first gold medal of the Nagano Winter Games in 15-kilometer classical cross-country skiing. Links: Russia, Japan, Olympics, Skiing
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1998 Feb 9 |
At the Nagano Games, German Georg Hackl won the men's luge for the third consecutive Olympics. Links: Germany, Japan, Olympics
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1998 Feb 10 |
Speedskater Hiroyasu Shimizu won Japan's first gold medal of the Nagano Olympics, in the 500-meter event. Links: Japan, Olympics, Skating
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1998 Feb 11 |
Skier Jonny Moseley won the first U.S. gold medal at Nagano, in men's moguls freestyle; Picabo Street won the women's super-G. Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati was stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for marijuana. His medal was later reinstated. Links: Canada, USA, Japan, Olympics, Skiing
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1998 Feb 12 |
At Nagano, Norwegian Bjorn Daehlie became the first man to win six Winter Olympic gold medals, as he placed first in the 10-kilometer classical cross-country race. Links: Japan, Olympics, Norway
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1998 Feb 12 |
An appeals panel reinstated Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati's gold medal, a day after he was stripped of the honor for testing positive for marijuana. Links: Canada, Japan, Olympics
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1998 Feb 14 |
Russia's Ilya Kulik won the men's figure skating gold medal at the Nagano Olympics. Links: Russia, Japan, Olympics, Skating
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1998 Feb 15 |
Two Japanese ski jumpers, Kazuyoshi Funaki and Masahiko Harada, leapt to gold and bronze medals in the 120-meter event at the Nagano Olympics. Links: Japan, Olympics
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1998 Feb 16 |
Skier Hermann Maier of Austria won the Super-G and Katja Seizinger of Germany won the women's downhill at the Nagano Olympics; Russia's Pasha Grishuk and Yeggeny Platov won the ice dancing event. Links: Austria, Russia, Japan, Olympics, Skating, Dance
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1998 Feb 17 |
The U.S. women's hockey team won the gold medal at Nagano, Japan, defeating Canada 3-1. Links: USA, Japan, Olympics, Hockey
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1998 Feb 19 |
At the Nagano Olympics, Austrian Hermann Maier won the men's giant slalom while Hilde Gerg of Germany won the women's slalom. Links: Austria, Germany, Japan, Olympics
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1998 Feb 20 |
Tara Lipinski of the U.S. won the ladies' figure skating title at Nagano, becoming at age 15 the youngest gold medalist in Winter Olympics history; Michelle Kwan won the silver. Links: USA, Japan, Olympics, Skating
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1998 Feb 22 |
The Czech Republic defeated Russia 1-0 to win men's hockey as the Nagano Winter Olympics came to a close. Links: Russia, Japan, Olympics, Hockey, Czech Rep.
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1998 Sep 21 |
Florence Griffith Joyner (38), winner of 3 gold medals in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, died of an apparent heart seizure at her home in Mission Viejo, Calif. She held the women’s record in the 100- and 200-meter dashes. Links: Olympics, World Record
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1998 Dec 12 |
Marc Hodler (1919-2006), Swiss lawyer and International Olympics Committee official, unleashed a series of corruption allegations that included systemic buying and selling of votes in Olympic bidding, particularly for the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Links: USA, Switzerland, Olympics, Utah, Corruption
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1999 Jan 8 |
Two top organizers of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt lake City resigned in a mushrooming bribery scandal amid disclosures that civic boosters had given cash to members of the International Olympic Committee. Links: USA, Olympics, Utah
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1999 Jan 22 |
A 2nd member of the Int'l. Olympic Commission resigned as part of the bribery scandal on the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Links: Olympics, Utah
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1999 Jan 24 |
The executive board of the IOC moved to expel 6 members for unethical behavior in response to allegations of payoffs by host cities in their successful bids for the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney and 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. The board recommended drastic changes for the host cities ar chosen for the Olympic Games. Links: Australia, Olympics, Utah
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1999 Feb 3 |
In Switzerland 60 of the 105 members of the IOC met to formulate an assault on performance enhancing drugs. Links: Switzerland, Olympics
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1999 Feb 10 |
Mitt Romney, a venture capitalist son of George Romney, was proposed as the new chief of the Olympic Committee for the 2002 games in SLC. Links: Olympics, Utah
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1999 Mar 17 |
The Int'l. Olympic Committee expelled 6 members in the wake of a bribery scandal, but gave a vote of confidence to IOC pres. Juan Antonio Samaranch. Links: Olympics
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1999 Apr 25 |
Lord Killanin, former president of the International Olympic Committee, died in Dublin, Ireland, at age 84. Links: Olympics, Ireland
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1999 Jun 19 |
Turin, Italy, was chosen as the site of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. Links: Italy, Olympics
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1999 Jun 26 |
In North Carolina the Int'l. Special Olympics opened in Cary. Links: Olympics, North Carolina
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1999 Dec 12 |
The Int'l. Olympic Committee enacted sweeping reforms that included a ban on visits by members to bid cities. Links: Olympics
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1999 |
Abu Daoud first acknowledged having a role in the 1972 Munich operation in the book: "Palestine: From Jerusalem to Munich." Links: Germany, Israel, Palestine, Olympics, Books
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2000 Jul 20 |
A federal grand jury indicted two former Utah Olympic officials for their alleged roles in paying one million dollars in cash and gifts to help bring the 2002 games to Salt Lake City. Links: USA, Olympics, Utah
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