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Did you know that?
** In a surprise move the IOC voted in favour of Atlanta, USA to host the 1996 Games. Athens, Greece was the favourite to hold the Centennial Games. (Athens will now host the 2004 Games)
** The Olympic Flame at Atlanta in 1996 was lit by former heavyweight boxing world champion Mohammad Ali, who had won a gold as Cassius Clay in the 1960 Games.
** American Carl Lewis who won the long jump in 1996 became the only third person in Olympic history to win the same individual event four times - in 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996. He also became the fourth athlete to earn nine career gold medals.
** Britain's Steve Redgrave won the coxless pairs in 1996 to become the first rower to earn a gold medals in four different Games.
** Turkey's Naim Suleymanoglu in 1996 became the first weightlifter to win three successive golds.
** Russia's Aleksandr Karelin who won the gold in the Greco-Roman super-heavyweight category in 1996 became the first wrestler to win the same division on three occasions.
** Germany's Birgit Schmidt won her fifth gold medal in kayak canoeing in 1996, sixteen years after her first victory to become the first woman to earn golds so far apart.
** Austria's yachtsman Hubert Raudaschl broke the Olympic record of having competed in nine Games from 1964 to 1996.
** In the freestyle wrestling middleweight division in the 1996 Games the Jabrailov brothers Elmadi and Tucuman representing two different countries - Kazakhstan and Moldova respectively - faced each other in the second round. The former won the high-scoring but unusually friendly encounter 10-8.
** Former men's hockey champions India finished eight at Atlanta in 1996. Its worst ever performance in history.
** Nigeria who won the football gold in 1996 became the first African nation to do so.