In Seoul in 1988, he had been on the receiving end of one of the worst judging decisions in Olympic history.
Another American, Matt Biondi, also won seven swimming medals at Seoul in 1988, but of his five golds only two came in individual events.
After winning the 100 meters final in Seoul in 1988, a reporter asked the Canadian sprinter what was more precious: a world record or the gold medal?
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Not since Mexico city in 1968 have they been held in one, unless you count Seoul in 1988, the last time the summer games were held in Asia.
She still holds the world record in the heptathlon, which she set in Seoul in 1988, and was named the Greatest Female Athlete of the 20th Century by Sports Illustrated for Women.
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She retired briefly after the 1988 Seoul Games but returned for the 1992 Barcelona Games.
As he points out, China ranked a distant eleventh for Olympic medals at the Seoul Olympics in 1988.
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We have to remember what happened before the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Visa competed neck and neck with MasterCard until it pulled away after the marketing coup that came with being the exclusive plastic of the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Francis admitted in 1989 that he had encouraged Johnson, stripped of his gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics for doping, and other athletes he coached to use steroids.
The boxer lost the 1988 Seoul Olympic super heavyweight final to Lennox Lewis, but in 1992 he became the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world after beating Evander Holyfield.
Most parts of China are unlikely to see the kind of political unrest that occurred in the build-up to the Mexico Olympics in 1968 and the Seoul Olympics in 1988.
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He finished 15th in the 10, 000 meters at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and also raced the event in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea.
Sixteen years later Roy Jones Jr. handed out a pummelling to Korea's Si Hun Park at the 1988 Games in Seoul only to rewarded with a silver by the judges.
I've been to Korea five times, the first time in 1988 and now currently in Seoul for business.
The 1988 to 1992 period, Seoul to Barcelona, is the point at which the Paralympic Games started to really get serious.
Is there any parallel to any of the dissidents who agitated openly for years in South Korea to bring about the 1988 switch from dictatorship to democracy in Seoul?
Though he ruptured a disk in his back in 1986, Mr. Moses underwent daily physical therapy and continued to compete until his retirement in 1988, taking home a bronze medal in that year's Seoul Olympics.
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