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Breaking-News >> TodayHistory The 24th Seoul Olympic Games opened on September 17, 1988
37 years ago today, on September 17, 1988 (August 7, 1988 lunar calendar), the 24th Seoul Olympic Games opened. At 10:30 am on September 17, 1988, the 24th Olympic Games was grandly opened at the Seoul Comprehensive Stadium. The Seoul Olympic Games was the first comprehensive competition between Eastern and Western sports powers since the 1976 Montreal Olympics. The fierce competition brought fruitful results, with a total of equals and 30 world records broken. The gold medal battle between Lewis and Ben Johnson became the strongest music note of the main theme of the Olympic Games. One tried to become the first athlete in Olympic history to win the 100-meter running championship in a row, and the other tried to retain the title of the world's "first flying man". On September 24th at 1:30 pm, with the click of the shutter and the shouts of a tsunami, Johnson ran the whole distance in 47 steps, setting a world record of 9.79 seconds, and Lewis was the runner-up in 9.92 seconds. Johnson suddenly became the number one hero of the Seoul stadium. But three days later, the 100m myth became a world-shaking scandal: Johnson was disqualified from the championship and banned for two years after a positive urine test, and his world record was also cancelled. Lewis became the first person to win the 100m championship at the Olympic Games. Griffith Joyner and Jackie Joyner became another pair of news figures in this Olympic Games. The silver medalist in the 200-meter run at the last Olympic Games - Joyner won the gold medals in the 100-meter, 200-meter, 4x100-meter and 4x400-meter silver medals at this Games, and rewrote the 200-meter world record twice, becoming the athlete with the most gold medals in this track and field event. Jackie Joyner is the only athlete in the world to break the 7,000-point mark in the heptathlon. She broke the pattern that European athletes have always dominated the event with her own great strength. This time she rewrote the world record for the fourth time with a total score of 7,291 points. Then, she won the long jump competition. In just one week, the aunt and sister-in-law rewrote the world record three times and won the championship podium five times, becoming a story in the history of the Olympic Games. In the swimming competition, Otto, a female athlete from the Democratic Republic of Germany, won all the 50-meter, 100-meter freestyle, 100-meter backstroke, 100-meter butterfly and two relay events, and won a total of 6 gold medals. She became the athlete with the most gold medals in the Seoul Olympic Games and the only female athlete in the history of Olympic swimming to achieve such brilliant achievements. She was named the best athlete in the Olympic Games and won the golden crown awarded by the conference. In the diving competition, the Chinese female athlete won the platform diving championship for a row. At the age of 17, Gao Min beat Qunfang in the springboard competition and became the first Olympic springboard diving gold medal winner in China. Four years later, she won the championship again. In the men's diving competition, the previous double champion Loganis won the springboard competition again, but was challenged by Chinese 14-year-old Xiong Ni in the platform jumping competition. Although Xiong Ni completed all 10 moves impeccably, he was the runner-up due to unfair scoring by individual judges. In 1993, Loganis first revealed to the world in his memoir that he was gay and had AIDS before the Seoul Olympics, causing shock. After 12 years of hard work, Xiong Ni finally realized his Olympic champion dream in the springboard diving competition in Atlanta. The delegation of our country won a total of 5 gold medals, 11 silver and 12 bronze medals, ranking 11th in the gold medal list. Although the results are far from the last, but women's swimming in this Olympic Games made a new breakthrough, won 3 silver, 1 bronze, opened the prelude to our country's female athletes to the world of swimming. "Ben - Johnson incident" became the International Olympic Committee since the start of excitement inspection in 1968 The biggest scandal "Wonder Boy" Lewis's 100-meter gold medal was recovered, enabling him to win two consecutive 100-meter championships. American outstanding women's decathlon athlete Jackie Joyner is the first female athlete to break the 7000 mark. American sprinter Griffith Joyner broke the women's 100-meter world record with an amazing time of 10.49 seconds, a record that has not been broken to this day News raw data sources → https://www.abtool.cn/today_detail/13oo.html 17WorldNews[2025.09.27-13:57] 访问:78
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