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The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) [3] [4] [5] were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a domestic terrorist pipe bombing attack on Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday, July 27, 1996, during the Summer Olympics. The blast directly killed one person and injured 111 others; another person later died of a heart attack.
Centennial Olympic Stadium was the 85,000-seat main stadium of the 1996 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Construction of the stadium began in 1993, and it was complete and ready for the opening ceremony in July 1996, where it hosted athletics events and the closing ceremony .
Centennial Olympic Park is a 22-acre (89,000 m 2) public park located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, owned and operated by the Georgia World Congress Center Authority.It was built by the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) as part of the infrastructure improvements for the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Revelers were enjoying the festive atmosphere when, around 1:20 a.m. on July 27, an explosion rocked the park. Two people died and another 110 were injured.
Centennial Olympic Park was designed as the "town square" of the Olympics, and thousands of spectators had gathered for a late concert. Sometime after midnight on July 27, 1996, Eric Robert Rudolph , a domestic terrorist who would later bomb a lesbian nightclub and two abortion clinics , placed a green backpack containing a shrapnel -laden pipe ...
Following the 1996 Summer Paralympics, Olympic Stadium was retrofitted between September 1996 and April 1997, with the synthetic 400 m athletic track and 35,000 seats removed. [ 118 ] [ 119 ] The new venue, named Turner Field in honor of then-Braves owner and former Goodwill Games founder Ted Turner , opened on April 4, 1997, with a 5–4 win ...
The opening ceremony of the 1996 Summer Olympics took place in the evening on Friday, July 19 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium, Atlanta, United States.As mandated by the Olympic Charter, the proceedings combined the formal and ceremonial opening of this international sporting event, including welcoming speeches, hoisting of the flags and the parade of athletes, with an artistic spectacle to ...