"Summon the Heroes" remains a staple during NBC’s Olympic coverage. 1996 was also ... of the modern Olympics. But it didn’t stop there. Gladys Knight, an Atlanta native, emerged from center ...

Cobi, a human Pyrenean mountain dog, was a reference to COOB'92, the abbreviation for the Barcelona '92 Olympic Organizing Committee. The mascot for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta was Izzy -- an ...

America's reputation for staging major events suffered a major setback with these Olympics that seemed to lurch from one disaster to another. They were mired in controversy from the moment they ...

The Atlanta 1996 Paralympic Games were the first to attract worldwide corporate sponsorship. Hosts USA topped the medals table with 46 gold medals from the 519 medal events. In total 3,252 Para ...

During the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia three pipe bombs exploded killing two people and injuring 111 on July 27th.. Those killed were a woman named Alice Hawthorne who died shortly ...

Attendance for the Atlanta 1996 Games was high throughout and a total of 388,373 spectators were recorded across all the sporting events. Around 66,257 people attended the Opening Ceremony at the ...

The medals of the Atlanta 1996 Paralympic Games embody the concept of “flames”, representing the human spirit burning brightly. The design also pays tribute to Blaze the Phoenix, the official mascot ...

five players from the gold-medal winning 1992 Olympics team competed at the Atlanta games in 1996, including Charles Barkley, Scottie Pippen, Karl Malone, John Stockton and Robinson. It was O ...

Marie-Jose Perec, 56, was also born in Guadeloupe and also has three gold medals to her name, winning one at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and two at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. The Olympic cauldron for ...

but there is support from both sides of the aisle for a resolution honoring the 25th anniversary of the Atlanta 1996 Olympics and Paralympics. Congresswoman Nikema Williams, who represents the ...