1988 Summer Olympics
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The 1988 Summer Olympics (Template:Korean), officially the Games of the XXIV Olympiad (Template:Korean) and officially branded as Seoul 1988 (Template:Korean), were an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. 159 nations were represented at the games by a total of 8,391 athletes (6,197 men and 2,194 women). 237 events were held and 27,221 volunteers helped to prepare the Olympics.
The 1988 Seoul Olympics were the second summer Olympic Games held in Asia, after Tokyo 1964, and the first held in South Korea.<ref name="upi">Template:Cite web</ref> As the host country, South Korea ranked fourth overall, winning 12 gold medals and 33 medals in the competition. 11,331 media (4,978 written press and 6,353 broadcasters) showed the Games all over the world.<ref name="SEOUL 1988 Games of the XXIV Olympiad"/> These were the last Olympic Games of the Cold War, as well as for the Soviet Union and East Germany, as both ceased to exist before the next Olympic Games in 1992. The Soviet Union dominated the medal count, winning 55 gold and 132 total medals. The results that got closest to that medal haul in the years since are China's and the United States's 48 gold medals in 2008 and 2012, respectively, and the United States's 126 total medals in 2024.
Compared to the 1980 Summer Olympics (Moscow) and the 1984 Summer Olympics (Los Angeles), which were divided into two camps by ideology, the 1988 Seoul Olympics was a competition in which the boycotts virtually disappeared, although they were not completely over. North Korea boycotted the 1988 Seoul Olympics, as did five socialist countries including Cuba, an ally of North Korea. Albania, Ethiopia, and Seychelles did not respond to the invitation sent by the IOC.<ref name="FindlingPelle1996">Template:Cite book</ref> Nicaragua did not participate due to athletic and financial considerations,<ref name="Janofsky">Template:Cite news</ref> while the expected participation of Madagascar was withdrawn for financial reasons.<ref name="auto">Template:Cite web</ref> Nonetheless, the much larger boycotts seen in the three previous editions were avoided, resulting in the largest number of participating nations during the Cold War era.
For South Korea, the 1988 Olympics was a symbolic event that elevated its international image while also contributing to national pride.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Only thirty-five years after the Korean War which devastated the nation, and during a decade of social unrest in South Korea, the Olympics was successfully held and became the culmination of what was deemed the "Miracle on the Han River".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Host city selection
[edit]Seoul was chosen to host the Summer Games through a vote held on 30 September 1981, finishing ahead of Nagoya, Japan.<ref name="SEOUL 1988 Games of the XXIV Olympiad">Template:Cite web</ref> The awarding to Seoul was internationally considered to be surprising, with Nagoya having been considered a favourite.<ref name="upi"/> Below was the vote count that occurred at the 84th IOC Session and 11th Olympic Congress in Baden-Baden, West Germany.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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| Seoul | Template:Flag | 52 |
| Nagoya | Template:Flag | 27 |
Seoul had previously hosted many international events, but the most noteworthy ones were the Miss Universe 1980 and the 1986 Asian Games, thus demonstrating that it had the appropriate capability.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Highlights
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- Soviet Vladimir Artemov won four gold medals in gymnastics.<ref name="Honored Inductees - Vladimir Artemov">Template:Cite web</ref> Daniela Silivaş of Romania won three and equalled compatriot Nadia Comăneci's record of seven perfect 10s in one Olympic Games.<ref name="Honored Inductees - Daniela Silivas">Template:Cite web</ref>
- After having demolished the world record in the 100-metre dash at the US Olympic trials in Indianapolis, sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner set an Olympic record (10.62) in the 100-metre dash and a still-standing world record (21.34) in the 200-metre dash to capture gold medals in both events. To these medals, she added a gold in the 4×100 relay and a silver in the 4×400.<ref name="World Sport - Florence Griffith-Joyner">Template:Cite news</ref>
- This was the first Olympic Games where women's sailing was its own event. It was won by Americans Allison Jolly and Lynne Jewell.
- Canadian Ben Johnson won the 100-metre final with a world-record time of 9.79 seconds, but was disqualified after he tested positive for stanozolol. Johnson has since claimed that his positive test was the result of sabotage.<ref name="Odd tale of mystery man in waiting-room">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Ben Johnson acusa a EEUU de proteger a sus atletas dopados">Template:Cite web</ref>
- In the women's artistic gymnastics team all-around competition, the United States women's team was penalized five-tenths of a point from their team score by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) after the compulsory round. East German judge Ellen Berger noticed that Rhonda Faehn, who was the American team alternate and not competing, had been standing on the uneven bars podium for the duration of Kelly Garrison-Steve's compulsory uneven bars routine. Although Faehn was not a coach, Berger assessed the penalty under a rule prohibiting coaches from remaining on the podium while an athlete competes. The deduction caused the United States to fall to fourth place with a combined score of 390.575, three-tenths of a point behind East Germany. This incident remains controversial in the sport of gymnastics, as the United States outperformed the East German team and would have taken the bronze medal in the team competition had they not been penalized.
- Phoebe Mills won an individual bronze medal on the balance beam, shared with Romania's Gabriela Potorac, making history as the first medal (team or individual) ever won by a US woman in artistic gymnastics at a fully attended games.
- The USSR won their final team gold medals in artistic gymnastics on both the men's and women's sides with scores of 593.350 and 395.475 respectively. The men's team was led by Vladimir Artemov, while Elena Shushunova led the women's team.
- Lawrence Lemieux, a Canadian sailor in the Finn class, was in second place and poised to win a silver medal when he abandoned the race to save an injured competitor in mortal peril. He finished in 21st place, but was recognized by the International Fair Play Committee with the Pierre de Coubertin World Trophy honoring his bravery and sacrifice.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- American diver Greg Louganis won back-to-back titles on both diving events despite striking his head on the springboard during his third-round dive and suffering a concussion.
- Christa Luding-Rothenburger of East Germany won the silver medal in the women's sprint event in cycling. Combined with the two medals she won in speed skating in the Winter Games in Calgary, she became the first athlete to win medals in two Olympics held in the same year; this feat is no longer possible due to the current scheduling of the Olympic Games.<ref name="Christa Luding-Rothenburger Encyclopædia Britannica article">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
- Anthony Nesty of Suriname won his country's first Olympic medal by winning the men's 100-metre butterfly, prevailing over American Matt Biondi by .01 of a second (thwarting Biondi's attempt to match Mark Spitz's record seven golds in one Olympics).<ref name="Odds against Phelps eclipsing Spitz - Biondi">Template:Cite news</ref> Nesty was the first black person to win an individual swimming gold.<ref name="El deporte en el Sur">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Swimmer Kristin Otto of East Germany won six gold medals. Other multi-gold medalists in the pool were Matt Biondi (five)<ref name="United States Olympic Committee - Biondi, Matt">Template:Cite web</ref> and Janet Evans (three).<ref name="United States Olympic Committee - Evans, Janet">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Swedish fencer Kerstin Palm became the first woman to take part in seven Olympics.<ref name="SEOUL 1988 Games of the XXIV Olympiad"/>
- Mark Todd of New Zealand won his second consecutive individual gold medal in the three-day event in equestrian on Charisma, only the second time in eventing history that a gold medal has been won consecutively.<ref name="History of Awards : 1980-1989">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Baseball<ref name="Demonstration Sports at the Olympic Games">Template:Cite web</ref> and Taekwondo<ref name="About WTF - History">Template:Cite web</ref> were demonstration sports. The opening ceremony featured a mass demonstration of taekwondo with hundreds of adults and children performing moves in unison.
- This was the last time the United States was represented by an all-amateur basketball team that did not feature NBA players;<ref name="The Original Dream Team">Template:Cite web</ref> the team won the bronze medal after losing to the Soviet Union (that was represented by veteran professionals) which went on to win the gold medal.<ref name="THE SEOUL OLYMPICS: Men's Basketball; After 16-Year Wait, Soviets Stun U.S. Again, 82-76">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- For the first time in history, all the dressage events were won by women.<ref name="Canada at the 1988 Summer Olympics">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Women's judo was held for the first time, as a demonstration sport.<ref name="Obukan Judo History">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Bowling was held as a demonstration sport, with Kwon Jong Yul of South Korea and Arianne Cerdeña from the Philippines winning the men's and women's gold medals, respectively.
- Table tennis was introduced at the Olympics, with China and South Korea both winning two titles.<ref name="Olympic Table Tennis Champions">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Tennis returned to the Olympics after a 64-year absence.<ref name="THE SEOUL OLYMPICS: Tennis; Tennis Returns to Good Reviews">Template:Cite news</ref> Steffi Graf of West Germany added to her four Grand Slam victories in the year by also winning the Olympic title in women's singles,<ref name="Steffi graf, la mejor">Template:Cite web</ref> beating Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina in the final.<ref name="Gabriela Sabatini - Fotos, Vídeos, Biografía, Wallpapers y Ficha Técnica">Template:Cite web</ref> Graf became the first person to win all four Grand Slams and the Olympic gold in a calendar year, known as the golden slam.
- Two Bulgarian weightlifters were stripped of their gold medals after failing doping tests, and the team withdrew after this event.<ref name="THE SEOUL OLYMPICS: Weight Lifting; Team Lifted After 2d Drug Test Is Failed">Template:Cite news</ref>
- In boxing, Roy Jones Jr. of the United States dominated his opponents, never losing a single round en route to the final. In the final, he controversially lost a 3–2 decision to South Korean fighter Park Si-Hun despite pummeling Park for three rounds and landing 86 punches to Park's 32.<ref name="query.nytimes.com">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="times">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Seoul Games scarred by riots">Template:Cite web</ref>
- In another boxing controversy, Riddick Bowe of the United States lost a controversial match in the final to Canadian future world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis. Bowe had a dominant first round, landing 33 of 94 punches thrown (34%) while Lewis landed 14 of 67 (21%). In the first round the referee from East Germany gave Bowe two cautions for headbutts and deducted a point for a third headbutt, although replay clearly showed there was none. Commentator Ferdie Pacheco disagreed with the deduction, saying they did not hit heads. In the second round, Lewis landed several hard punches. The referee gave Bowe two standing eight counts and waved the fight off after the second one, even though Bowe seemed able to continue. Pacheco disagreed with the stoppage, calling it "very strange".<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
- Soviet weightlifter Yury Zakharevich won the men's heavyweight (up to 110 kg class) with a Template:Cvt snatch and Template:Cvt clean and jerk for a Template:Cvt total. Zakhareivich had dislocated his elbow in 1983 attempting a world record and had it rebuilt with synthetic tendons.
- Indonesia gained its first medal in Olympic history when the women's team won a silver medal in archery.
Ceremonies
[edit]Live doves were released during the opening ceremony as a symbol of world peace, but a number of the doves were burned alive or suffered major trauma by the lighting of the Olympic cauldron. As a result of protests following the incident, the last time live doves were released during the opening ceremony was in 1992 in Barcelona, at the start of the ceremony. Balloon doves were released in 1994 Winter Olympics and the 1998 Winter Olympics and paper doves were used at the Atlanta Ceremony in 1996.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
These were also the last Summer Olympic Games to hold the opening ceremony during the daytime. The opening ceremony featured a skydiving team descending over the stadium and forming the five-colored Olympic Rings,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> as well as a mass demonstration of taekwondo. The skydiving team trained at SkyDance SkyDiving and had hoped the opening ceremony appearance would set the stage for skydiving becoming a medal event by 2000.<ref name="skydance">Template:Cite news</ref>
Domestic historical significance
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The idea for South Korea to place a bid for the 1988 Games emerged during the last days of the Park Chung Hee administration in the late 1970s, as hosting the Olympics was a big opportunity to bring international attention to South Korea. But before that, it was necessary to prove the country's capacity, as South Korea was seen as an exotic and risky destination for large events.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The project continued to run even after President Park's assassination in 1979. With the successful staging of Miss Universe 1980 and the 1986 Asian Games, Chun Doo-hwan, Park's successor, submitted Korea's bid to the IOC in September 1981, in hopes that the increased international exposure brought by the Olympics would legitimize his authoritarian regime amidst increasing political pressure for democratization and less rigidity in state policies. Further, he hoped it would provide protection from increasing threats from North Korea, and showcase the economic strength that the country was experiencing to the world.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Seoul was awarded the bid on 30 September 1981, becoming the 16th nation in the Summer Olympics, as well as the second Asian nation (following Japan in the 1964 Summer Olympics) and the first mainland Asian nation to host the Olympics.
Influenced by the model of 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, which served as a rite of passage for the Japanese economy and re-integration of Japan in the international community in the post-war era, the South Korean government hoped to use the Olympics as a "coming-out party". The Olympics gave a powerful impetus to the development of South Korea's relations with Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and with China.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> In January 1982, South Korea's curfew that had been in place since 1945 was lifted.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In utilizing media events theory, Larson and Park investigated the Seoul Olympics as a form of political communication. They revealed the significance of South Korea's military government throughout the period of the Olympic bid and preparation, followed by the many advantages of the hosting the Games: rapid economic modernization, social mobilization and the legitimization of the military dictatorship.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Homeless camp expansion
[edit]Existing camps for "vagrants" (homeless persons) were ramped up before the 1988 Olympics. An Associated Press article states that homeless people and alcoholics, "but mostly children and the disabled" were arrested and sent to these camps to prepare for the Olympics. In addition, a prosecutor had his investigation into the Brothers Home camp limited at a number of levels of government "in part out of fear of an embarrassing international incident on the eve of the Olympics."<ref name="Associated Press 2016-04-20">Template:Cite news</ref>
In 1975, the previous president of South Korea had begun a policy of rounding up vagrants. According to government documents obtained by the Associated Press, from 1981 to 1986 the number of people held increased from 8,600 to more than 16,000.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Police officers often received promotions based on the number of vagrants they had arrested, and owners of facilities received a subsidy based on the number of people held. There were multiple reports of inmates raped or beaten, and sometimes beaten to death.<ref name="Associated Press 2016-04-20"/>
4,000 of these "vagrants" were held at the Brothers Home facility.<ref name=hancocks/> Many of the guards were former inmates who had been "promoted" because of loyalty to the camp's owner. Various money-making operations were conducted such as manufacturing ball-point pens and fishing hooks, as well as clothing for Daewoo. Only a few inmates were paid belatedly for this work.<ref name="Associated Press 2016-04-20"/>
By accident while on a hunting trip, prosecutor Kim Yong-won heard about and visited a work detail of prisoners in ragged clothes overseen by guards with wooden bats and dogs. In his words, he knew immediately that "a very serious crime" was occurring, and in January 1987, he led a raid on the facility and found beaten and malnourished inmates. He was politically pressured at various levels to reduce the charges against the owner, managers, and guards. In the end, the owner only served Template:Frac years in prison.<ref name="Associated Press 2016-04-20"/>
The Brothers Home was a religious facility based on the Christian faith. There were in fact inspections by both city officials and church officials. However, these were scheduled inspections in which healthier inmates were presented in carefully planned and orchestrated circumstances. There were no unannounced inspections.<ref name="Associated Press 2016-04-20"/>
In the 1990s, construction workers found about 100 human bones on a mountainside outside the location of the former Brothers Home.<ref name="Associated Press 2016-04-20"/> Victims of the Brothers Home are seeking a government investigation into the crimes committed and accountability.<ref name=hancocks>Template:Cite news</ref>
Boycott
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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. This was made more difficult by the lack of diplomatic relations between South Korea and communist countries. This prompted action by the IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch, who was committed to the participation of these countries. Thus, at the Assembly of National Olympic Committees in Mexico City in November 1984, the "Mexico Declaration"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> was adopted. The declaration offered support for participation in the 1988 Olympics by all members of the Association of National Olympic Committees. The agreement with the Soviet Union was reached in 1987. After the Los Angeles games, East Germany had already decided to participate again in Seoul. The IOC also decided that it would send invitations to the 1988 Games itself and did not leave this task to the organizing committee as had been done before. Despite these developments, behind the scenes, the IOC did consider relocating the Games and explored the suitability of Munich as an alternative.
Another point of conflict was the involvement of North Korea in hosting the Games, something that had been encouraged by Cuban president Fidel Castro, who called for North Korea to be considered joint host of the Games. As a result, on 8 and 9 January 1986 in Lausanne, Switzerland, the IOC President chaired a meeting of the North and South Korean Olympic Committees. North Korea demanded that eleven of the 23 Olympic sports be carried out on its territory, and also demanded special opening and closing ceremonies. It wanted a joint organizing committee and a united team. The negotiations were continued into another meeting, but were not successful. The IOC did not meet the demands of North Korea and only about half of the desired sporting events were offered to the North. So the focus thereafter was solely on Seoul and South Korea.<ref>"Sport and Politics on the Korean Peninsula – North Korea and the 1988 Seoul Olympics" NKIDP e-Dossier No. 3. Retrieved 23 April 2012</ref>
The games were boycotted by North Korea and its ally Cuba. Ethiopia, Albania and the Seychelles did not respond to the invitations sent by the IOC.<ref name="FindlingPelle1996"/> Nicaragua did not participate due to athletic and financial considerations.<ref name="Janofsky"/> Madagascar had been expected to participate before withdrawing for financial reasons.<ref name="auto"/>
Official theme song
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Template:Main The Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee (SLOOC) also produced and distributed an official song of the Seoul Games to publicize the Games to all National Olympic Committees, encouraging their participation and consolidating the idea of harmony and friendship of the entire world through the song. "Hand in Hand" was commissioned for the Italian composer Giorgio Moroder and the American songwriter Tom Whitlock, and was performed by local group Koreana.
Venues
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- Seoul Sports Complex venues
- Seoul Olympic StadiumTemplate:Ref label – opening/closing ceremonies, athletics, equestrian (jumping individual final), football (final)
- Jamsil Indoor Swimming PoolTemplate:Ref label – diving, modern pentathlon (swimming), synchronized swimming, swimming, water polo
- Jamsil GymnasiumTemplate:Ref label – basketball, volleyball (final)
- Jamsil Students' GymnasiumTemplate:Ref label – boxing
- Jamsil Baseball StadiumTemplate:Ref label – baseball (demonstration)
- Olympic Park venues
- Olympic VelodromeTemplate:Ref label – cycling (track)
- Olympic Weightlifting GymnasiumTemplate:Ref label – weightlifting
- Olympic Fencing GymnasiumTemplate:Ref label – fencing, modern pentathlon (fencing)
- Olympic Gymnastics HallTemplate:Ref label – gymnastics
- Olympic Tennis CenterTemplate:Ref label – tennis
- Mongchon TosongTemplate:Ref label – modern pentathlon (running)
- Other venues in metropolitan Seoul
- Seoul Equestrian Park– equestrian (all but jumping individual final), modern pentathlon (riding)
- Han River Regatta Course/Canoeing Site CourseTemplate:Ref label – canoeing, rowing
- Saemaul Sports HallTemplate:Ref label – volleyball preliminaries
- Hanyang University GymnasiumTemplate:Ref label – volleyball preliminaries
- Changchung GymnasiumTemplate:Ref label – judo, taekwondo (demonstration)
- Seoul National University Gymnasium – badminton (demonstration), table tennis
- Royal Bowling CenterTemplate:Ref label – bowling (demonstration)
- Dongdaemun StadiumTemplate:Ref label – football preliminaries
- Hwarang Archery FieldTemplate:Ref label, Nowon-gu – archery
- Taenung International Shooting RangeTemplate:Ref label, Taenung – modern pentathlon (shooting), shooting
- Streets of Seoul – athletics (20 km/ 50 km walk, marathon)
- Jangchung Gymnasium – taekwondo (demonstration), judo
- Venues outside Seoul
- Sangmu GymnasiumTemplate:Ref label, Seongnam – wrestling
- Daejeon StadiumTemplate:Ref label, Daejeon – football preliminaries
- Daegu StadiumTemplate:Ref label, Daegu – football preliminaries
- Busan StadiumTemplate:Ref label, Busan – football preliminaries
- Gwangju StadiumTemplate:Ref label, Gwangju – football preliminaries
- Suwon GymnasiumTemplate:Ref label, Suwon – handball
- Seongnam StadiumTemplate:Ref label, Seongnam – field hockey
- Busan Yachting CenterTemplate:Ref label, Busan – sailing
- Tongillo Road Course – cycling (individual road race, road team time trial)
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Cost
[edit]According to The Oxford Olympics Study data is not available to establish the cost of the Seoul 1988 Summer Olympics.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The cost of the stadium was 491 billion won, approximately US$354 million.
Sports
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- Greco-Roman (10)
Demonstration
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Exhibition
[edit]Badminton and bowling were held as exhibition sports, which did not require IOC approval and were not part of the official Olympic schedule.<ref name="1984 Report">Template:Cite web</ref>
Calendar
[edit]Note: between May 8 and October 9, 1988, all the clocks in the country were advanced by one hour as a test of the possibility of adopting the daylight summer time in the country in the future. This advance also enabled the development of a sports calendar in which the main events were scheduled to be broadcast in major Western markets in television prime time.
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Participating National Olympic Committees
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Athletes from 160 nations competed at the Seoul Games. Aruba, American Samoa, Brunei, Cook Islands, Maldives, Vanuatu, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and South Yemen made their first Olympic appearance at these Games. Guam made their first Summer Olympic appearance at these games having participated in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
In the following list, the number in parentheses indicates the number of athletes from each nation that competed in Seoul:<ref name="Olympic Games Participating Countries - 1988 Seoul">Template:Cite web</ref> Template:Clear
- When the team from the Dominican Republic marched in during the Parade of Nations, the superimposed map erroneously showed the location of Cuba, a nation that did not take part at the Games.<ref>Template:Cite AV media</ref>
Number of athletes by National Olympic Committee
[edit]Medal table
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Template:Main These are the top ten nations that won medals at the 1988 Games. Template:Medals table
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Mascot
[edit]The official mascot for the 1988 Summer Olympic Games was Hodori. It was a stylized tiger designed by Kim Hyun as an amicable Amur tiger, portraying the friendly and hospitable traditions of the Korean people.<ref name="Hodori - mascot of the 1988 Olympic Summer Games">Template:Cite web</ref> Hodori's female version was called Hosuni.<ref name="Seoul 1988 - Hodori and Hosuni">Template:Cite web</ref>
The name Template:Lang Hodori was chosen from 2,295 suggestions sent in by the public. It is a compound of Template:Lang ho, the Sino-Korean bound morpheme for "tiger" (appearing also in the usual word Template:Lang horangi for "tiger"), and Template:Lang dori, a diminutive for "boys".<ref name="Hodori - mascot of the 1988 Olympic Summer Games"/>
Broadcasting
[edit]Template:Unreferenced section In the United States, NBC became the telecast provider hereafter for the Summer Games, after a five-Olympics run by the American Broadcasting Company from 1968 to 1984.
NBC's coverage was their first sporting event to feature the new Quantel Cypher to generate the on-screen graphics. However, the network would continue to use Chyron Corporation for the rest of the year with Quantel being used again for the 1988 World Series. The Cypher would be implemented permanently starting with Super Bowl XXIII in January 1989.
Doping
[edit]| Name | Country | Sport | Banned substance | Medals | Ref. |
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| Ali Dad | Template:FlagIOC | Wrestling | Furosemide | ||
| Kerrith Brown | Template:FlagIOC | Judo | Furosemide | Template:Bronze3 (71 kg) | <ref name=BrownDQ>Brown steps down as British Judo Association chairman to become President of UFC partner IMMAF</ref> |
| Kalman Csengeri | Template:FlagIOC | Weightlifting | Stanozolol | ||
| Mitko Grablev | Template:FlagIOC | Weightlifting | Furosemide | Template:Gold1 (56 kg) | |
| Angell Guenchev | Template:FlagIOC | Weightlifting | Furosemide | Template:Gold1 (67.5 kg) | |
| Ben Johnson | Template:FlagIOC | Athletics | Stanozolol | Template:Gold1 (men's 100 m) | <ref name="Beijing 2015 statistics handbook">Template:Cite book</ref> |
| Fernando Mariaca | Template:FlagIOC | Weightlifting | Pemoline | ||
| Jorge Quesada | Template:FlagIOC | Modern pentathlon | Propranolol | ||
| Andor Szanyi | Template:FlagIOC | Weightlifting | Stanozolol | Template:Silver2 (100 kg) | |
| Alexander Watson | Template:FlagIOC | Modern Pentathlon | Caffeine |
In 2003, Wade Exum, the United States Olympic Committee's director of drug control administration from 1991 to 2000, released documents that showed Carl Lewis had tested positive three times at the 1988 United States Olympic trials for minimum amounts of pseudoephedrine, ephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine, which were banned stimulants. Bronchodilators are also found in cold medication. Due to the rules, his case could have led to disqualification from the Seoul Olympics and suspension from competition for six months. The levels of the combined stimulants registered in the separate tests were 2 ppm, 4 ppm and 6 ppm.<ref name=":0d">Template:Cite news</ref> Lewis defended himself, claiming that he had accidentally consumed the banned substances. After the supplements that he had taken were analyzed to prove his claims, the USOC accepted his claim of inadvertent use, since a dietary supplement he ingested was found to contain "Ma huang", the Chinese name for Ephedra (ephedrine is known to help weight loss).<ref name=":0d"/> Fellow Santa Monica Track Club teammates Joe DeLoach and Floyd Heard were also found to have the same banned stimulants in their systems, and were cleared to compete for the same reason.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name="autogenerated1">Template:Cite news</ref> The highest level of the stimulants Lewis recorded was 6 ppm, which was regarded as a positive test in 1988 but is now regarded as negative test. The acceptable level has been raised to ten parts per million for ephedrine and twenty-five parts per million for other substances.<ref name=":0d"/><ref>Wallechinsky and Loucky, The Complete Book of the Olympics (2012 edition), page 61.</ref> According to the IOC rules at the time, positive tests with levels lower than 10 ppm were cause of further investigation but not immediate ban. Neal Benowitz, a professor of medicine at UC San Francisco who is an expert on ephedrine and other stimulants, agreed that "These [levels] are what you'd see from someone taking cold or allergy medicines and are unlikely to have any effect on performance."<ref name=":0d"/> Following Exum's revelations the IAAF acknowledged that at the 1988 Olympic Trials the USOC indeed followed the correct procedures in dealing with eight positive findings for ephedrine and ephedrine-related compounds in low concentration. Additionally, in 1988 the federation reviewed the relevant documents with the athletes' names undisclosed and stated that "the medical committee felt satisfied, however, on the basis of the information received that the cases had been properly concluded by the USOC as 'negative cases' in accordance with the rules and regulations in place at the time and no further action was taken".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
See also
[edit]- 1988 Summer Olympics Album: One Moment in Time
- Use of performance-enhancing drugs in the Olympic Games – 1988 Seoul
References
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External links
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- Seoul Olympic Library
- 88 Seoul Olympics, Seoul Olympics memorial hall
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- Official Report Vol. 1
- Official Report Vol. 2
- 17 September 1988 Newsdesk broadcasting
- 2 October 1988 Newsdesk broadcasting
- The program of the 1988 Seoul Olympics
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