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| 1 | Jarrod |
 | Date Obtained:Thursday, July 31, 2008 Barcelona 1992 had it all. Men's basketball became open for the first time to all professionals, and the US sent the "Dream Team" that included Magic Jordan, Michael Johnson and Larry Bird. Gymnast Vitaly Scherbo won six gold medals, including a record four in one day. Great games.
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| 2 | Carty |
 | Date Obtained:Thursday, July 31, 2008 Atlanta 1996. These Games were given a dramatic start when the cauldron was lit by Muhammad Ali. On 27 July during a concert held in the Centennial Olympic Park, a terrorist bomb killed one person and injured a further 110 people, but the Atlanta Games are best remembered for their sporting achievements. A record-setting 79 nations won medals and 53 won gold. Carl Lewis became only the third person to win the same individual event four times and the fourth person to earn a ninth gold medal. Naim Suleymanoglu became the first weightlifter to win a third gold medal. But for me the best was Michael Johnson smashing the 200m world record to complete an amazing 200m and 400m double.
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| 3 | oldnotwise |
 | Date Obtained:Friday, August 01, 2008 The 1936 olympics. Where Hitler and the Nazi's were first shown that the white aryan race were not set to rule the world.
The 'racially inferior' Owens won four gold medals; in the 100m, 200m, long jump and 4 x 100m relay. During the Games he broke 11 Olympic records and defeated Lutz Lang in a very close long jump final. Lang was the first to congratulate Owens when the long jump final was over. There were 10 African American members of the American athletics team. Between them they won 7 gold medals, 3 silvers and 3 bronze - more than any national team won in track and field at the Games, except America itself. Hitler refused to place the gold medal around Owen's neck.
Strange to think that the same race was sent to war against the Nazi's less than a decade later as cooks, drivers and bus boys as they were judged as not fit enough to fight and die in the front line infanty units.
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| 4 | granparoger | |
| 5 | PARTYBOY |
 | Date Obtained:Thursday, July 31, 2008 ATHENS. In 2004 the Olympic Games returned to Greece, the home of both the ancient Olympics and the first modern Olympics. For the first time ever a record 201 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in the Olympic Games. The overall tally for events on the programme was 301 (one more than in Sydney 2000). Popularity in the Games reached soared to new highs as 3.9 billion people had access to the television coverage compared to 3.6 billion for Sydney 2000. Women's wrestling was included in the program for the first time. Swimmer Michael Phelps won 6 gold medals and set a single-Games record with 8 total medals. Leontien Ziljaard-van Moorsel became the first female cyclist to earn 4 career gold medals and 6 total medals, while canoeist Birgit Fischer became the first athlete in any sport to win two medals in each of 5 Olympics. Runner Hicham El Guerrouj won both the 1,500m and the 5,000m. In team play, Argentina won the men's football tournament without giving up a goal, and the U.S. softball team won by outscoring their opponents 51-1. Kelly Holmes was my highlight though, winning golds in the 800m and 1500m, earning her the tile Dame!
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| 6 | Thorpey | |