Editing 1992 Summer Olympics (section)

== Host city selection ==
Barcelona is the second-largest city in Spain and the capital of the autonomous community of [[Catalonia]]; it is also the hometown of then-[[International Olympic Committee|IOC]] president [[Juan Antonio Samaranch]] and the famous European club [[FC Barcelona]]. The city was also a host for the [[1982 FIFA World Cup]]. On 17 October 1986, Barcelona was selected to host the 1992 Summer Olympics over [[Amsterdam]], Netherlands (the city also hosted the [[1928 Summer Olympics|1928 games]]); [[Belgrade]], Yugoslavia; [[Birmingham]], United Kingdom; [[Brisbane]], Australia; and [[Paris]], France, during the 91st [[IOC Session]] in [[Lausanne]], [[Switzerland]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aldaver.com/votes.html |title=IOC Vote History |publisher=Aldaver.com |access-date=4 December 2011 |archive-date=25 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080525070757/http://www.aldaver.com/votes.html |url-status=usurped }}</ref> [[New Delhi]], India, had announced a bid for the games, but withdrew in March 1986.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1141451/an-olympic-passage-to-india-40-years-ago | title=Philip Barker: An Olympic passage to India 40 years ago | date=6 October 2023 }}</ref> With 85 out of 89 members of the IOC voting by secret ballot, Barcelona won a majority of 47 votes. Samaranch abstained from voting.  In the same IOC meeting, Albertville, France, won the right to host the [[1992 Winter Olympics|1992 Winter Games]]. Paris and Brisbane would eventually be selected to host the [[2024 Summer Olympics|2024]] and [[2032 Summer Olympics]] respectively.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/18/sports/barcelona-gets-1992-summer-olympics.html |title=Barcelona gets 1992 Summer Olympics |format=Archives |date=18 October 1986 |first=Judith |last=Miller |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

Barcelona had previously bid for the [[1936 Summer Olympics]] that were ultimately held in [[Berlin]], Germany. As an [[Anti-fascism|anti-fascist]] response against the Games being organized by [[Nazi Germany]], the [[Generalitat de Catalunya|Government of Catalonia]] and the newly elected Spanish [[Popular Front (Spain)|Popular Front]] government advocated for the boycott of the [[Second Spanish Republic|Spanish Republic]] to the Berlin Games and the organization of an alternative games in Barcelona, known as the [[People's Olympiad]].<ref name="Harrison-1">{{cite news |last1=Harrison |first1=Sam |title=The 'Protest' Olympics That Never Came to Be |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/protest-olympics-never-came-be-180978179/ |access-date=25 February 2025 |work=[[Smithsonian Magazine]] |date=July 19, 2021 |language=en}}</ref> However, the same day of its planned inauguration (19 July), the [[Spanish Army]] carried out a coup d'état which led to the [[Spanish Civil War]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Movement to Boycott the Berlin Olympics of 1936 |url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007087 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202095138/http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007087 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 February 2014 |website=Holocaust Encyclopedia |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |access-date=25 February 2025}}</ref>

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|+ 1992 Summer Olympics bidding results<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gamesbids.com/eng/past.html |title=Past Olympic Host City Election Results |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110630134859/https://www.gamesbids.com/eng/past.html |archive-date=30 June 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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! rowspan=2 | City
! rowspan=2 | Country
! colspan=3 style="background:silver;"| Round
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! style="background:silver;"| 1
! style="background:silver;"| 2
! style="background:silver;"| 3
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||'''[[Barcelona]]'''|| '''{{flag|Spain}}'''|| style="text-align:center;" |'''29'''|| style="text-align:center;"|'''37'''|| style="text-align:center;"|'''47'''
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||[[Paris]]|| {{flag|France|1974}}|| style="text-align:center;"|19|| style="text-align:center;"|20|| style="text-align:center;"|23
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||[[Belgrade]]|| {{flag|SFR Yugoslavia}}|| style="text-align:center;" |13|| style="text-align:center;" |11|| style="text-align:center;" |5
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||[[Brisbane]]|| {{flag|Australia}}|| style="text-align:center;" |11|| style="text-align:center;" |9|| style="text-align:center;" |10
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||[[Birmingham]]|| {{flag|Great Britain}}|| style="text-align:center;"|8|| style="text-align:center;"|8|| style="text-align:center;"|—
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||[[Amsterdam]]|| {{flag|Netherlands}}|| style="text-align:center;"|5|| style="text-align:center;"|—|| style="text-align:center;"|—
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