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Seoul 1988
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Show description
Seoul 1988 was more than a spectacular sports festival. The countries were representative of all five continents of the world and included, for the first time, a team of blind athletes from the Soviet Union. The sports included archery, athletics, basketball, boccia, fencing, goalball, judo, lawn bowling, powerlifting, shooting, snooker, soccer, swimming, table tennis, volleyball (sitting and standing), weightlifting, wheelchair handball and wrestling. The Games' theme was philosophical in the classic Oriental fashion, combining challenge and conquest, peace and friendship, participation and equality in "a drama of human triumph…. staged by people who can turn an impossibility into a successful accomplishment".
Show Details
| Host city |
Seoul, South Korea
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| Stadium |
Olympic Stadium
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| Nations participating |
160
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| Trivia |
For the first time ever our Paralympic athletes were granted permission to wear the same uniform, the same track and the same competition strip as their Olympic colleagues
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