The 1988 Summer Olympics were held in Seoul, South Korea from September 17th to October 2nd. Over 8,000 athletes from 160 countries competed across 23 sports. Notable events included Kristin Otto of East Germany winning 6 gold medals in swimming and Carl Lewis of the United States winning gold medals in the long jump and 100m sprint. However, the Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was stripped of his 100m gold medal after testing positive for banned substances.

2. The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially
known as the Games of the XXIV
Olympiad, were an international multi-
sport event celebrated from 17
September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul,
South Korea.
They were the second summer Olympic
Games to be held in Asia and the first
since the 1964 Summer Olympics held
in Tokyo, Japan.
In the Seoul Games, 160 nations were
represented by a total of 8391
athletes: 6197 men and 2194 women.
These were the last Olympic Games for
the Soviet Union and East Germany, as
both ceased to exist before the next
Olympic Games.

4. In preparation for the 1988 Olympics,
the International Olympic Committee
worked to prevent another Olympic
boycott by the Eastern Bloc as had
happened at the 1984 Summer
Olympics in Los Angeles. The
agreement of the Soviet Union brought
a pledge of equal participation.
Another point of conflict was that North
Korea demanded that eleven of the 23
Olympic sports be carried out on its
territory, and also demanded special
opening and closing ceremonies.
North Korea boycotted the Games after
the failed negotiations and was
supported by Cuba, Nicaragua and
Ethiopia.

7. Afghanistan (5) Burkina Faso (6) Gambia (7)
Algeria (46) Burma (2) East Germany (291)
American Samoa (6) Cameroon (15) West Germany (404)
Andorra (3) Canada (379) Ghana (18)
Angola (29) Cayman Islands (8) Great Britain (369)
Antigua and Barbuda (16) Central African Republic (16) Greece (58)
Argentina (125) Chad (6) Grenada (6)
Aruba (8) Chile (18) Guam (20)
Australia (295) China (293) Guatemala (30)
Austria (88) Colombia (43) Guinea (8)
Bahamas (17) Congo (9) Guyana (8)
Bahrain (11) Cook Islands (6) Haiti (4)
Bangladesh (6) Costa Rica (16) Honduras (7)
Barbados (17) Côte d'Ivoire (32) Hong Kong (49)
Belgium (65) Cyprus (9) Hungary (203)
Belize (10) Czechoslovakia (171) Iceland (32)
Benin (7) Denmark (92) India (46)
Bermuda (13) Djibouti (7) Indonesia (31)
Bhutan (3) Dominican Republic (16) Iran (27)
Bolivia (7) Ecuador (26) Iraq (31)
Botswana (8) Egypt (54) Ireland (65)
Brazil (171) El Salvador (6) Israel (19)
British Virgin Islands (3) Equatorial Guinea (6) Italy (286)
Bulgaria (186) Fiji (24) Jamaica (35)

8. Japan (289) Niger (8) Sudan (8)
Jordan (9) Nigeria (76) Suriname (6)
Kenya (76) Norway (79) Swaziland (11)
South Korea (467, host nation) Oman (13) Sweden (205)
Kuwait (31) Pakistan (31) Switzerland (109)
Laos (6) Panama (6) Syria (16)
Lebanon (8) Papua New Guinea (12) Chinese Taipei (90)
Lesotho (6) Paraguay (10) Tanzania (10)
Liberia (8) Peru (22) Thailand (16)
Libya (6) Philippines (33) Togo (6)
Liechtenstein (12) Poland (152) Tonga (6)
Luxembourg (8) Portugal (68) Trinidad and Tobago (6)
Malawi (17) Puerto Rico (70) Tunisia (41)
Malaysia (13) Qatar (12) Turkey (50)
Maldives (7) Romania (64) Uganda (25)
Mali (6) Rwanda (6) United Arab Emirates (12)
Malta (9) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (7) United States (615)
Mauritania (6) Samoa (11) Uruguay (14)
Mauritius (8) San Marino (11) Vanuatu (6)
Mexico (91) Saudi Arabia (14) Venezuela (18)
Monaco (9) Senegal (22) Vietnam (10)
Mongolia (28) Sierra Leone (15) Virgin Islands (26)
Morocco (27) Singapore (8) North Yemen (11)
Mozambique (6) Solomon Islands (7) South Yemen (8)
Nepal (18) Somalia (7) Yugoslavia (157)
Netherlands (192) Soviet Union (514) Zaire (18)
Netherlands Antilles (3) Spain (269) Zambia (31)
New Zealand (93) Sri Lanka (6) Zimbabwe (31)

9. Athletics Fight
Basketball Swimming
Handball Synchronized swimming
Canoeing
Boxing Modern pentathlon
Cycling Remo
Horse riding Jumps
Fencing Tennis
Football Table tennis
Shooting
Gymnastics Archery
Weightlifting Candle
Field hockey Volleyball
Judo (M) Water Polo

10. 1467 relievers carried the Olympic Hodori was the official mascot of the
torch in a 15250 km tour that began 1988 Summer Olympic Games in
on August 23 in Olympia (Greece),
and then, the torch went to Korea. Seoul, South Korea.

11. Carl Lewis and nicknamed the "hijo del
Kristin Otto is most famous for being the viento" is an American retired specialist in
first woman to win six gold medals at a tests of speed and long jump. In the
single Olympic Games, doing so at the Olympic Games of Seoul 1988 added two
1988 Seoul Olympic games. Otto was also gold medals, becoming the first athlete to
the first woman to swim the short course win the long jump competition in two
100 meter backstroke in under a minute. consecutive Olympic Games and he won a
100m.

13. But the big news of the Games came out of the tracks, in the
laboratory, when it emerged that one of the seven athletes disqualified
for banned substance was the Canadian athlete Ben Johnson, who had
drawn the attention of the world by winning the 100 meters with the
new world record.

14. Sergei Bubka (pole vault) in the 1988 Seoul Games title and reached the Olympic
record with a jump of 5 meters 90 centimeters.
Gelindo Bordin is an Italian athlete, winner of gold medal in the marathon at the
1988 Seoul Olympics.
Lennox Lewis won the Gold Medal in the 1988 Seoul Olympics in boxing.
Florence Griffith won 3 Golds medals in100m, 200m and 4x100m, and won a
silver medal in 4x400m.