th Summer Olympic Games
| Where? | Seoul |
| Which Olympics? | The twenty-fourth (summer) |
| How long was it? | From 17 September till 2 October |
| Joining countries: | 159 |
| Athletes: | 8465 |
| Whereof women: | 2186 |
For these Olympics excisted all facilities already in 1988, because the Asian Games were in Seoul in 1986.
Because tennis re-entered the Olympics as Olympic sport, to be in 1920 as last at the program, and new sports like table tennis were introduced, came the number of sports (and so the number of gold medals) to a record of 237. This year were taekwondo, baseball and judo for women the demonstration-sports.
This year had the American tv-stations incredible amount for the rights of the broadcasting of the Olympics (amounts to 750 million dollars), but under conditions that the most important finals should be during the hours that the viewing figures in the USA were at his highst.
Ben Johnson (a Canadian) won in Seoul the 100 meter sprint with a time of 9.79 sec. With this he had destroyed his archrival Carl Lewis. Three days later was evident that Johnson used dope, and was disqualified. Carl Lewis got yet the gold medal, with the winning time of 9.92 sec. Totally there were 9 disqualified because of using drugs.
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