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    Centennial Olympic Stadium was the 85,000-seat main stadium of the 1996 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Construction...
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  • 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were...
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  • boxes, or other symbols. Olympic Stadium is the name usually given to the main stadium of an Olympic Games. An Olympic stadium is the site of the opening...
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    home stadium from the program's inception in 2010 until 2016. It was originally built for the 1996 Summer Olympics as Centennial Olympic Stadium. Following...
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  • The Closing Ceremony of the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on August 4, 1996, at the Centennial Olympic Stadium in Atlanta, United States at approximately...
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  • Summer Olympics took place in the evening on Friday, July 19 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium, Atlanta, United States. As mandated by the Olympic Charter...
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    Companys Olympic Stadium formerly known as the Estadi de Montjuïc and Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc and also known in English as the Barcelona Olympic Stadium, is...
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  • Centennial Olympic Park is a 22-acre (89,000 m2) public park located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, owned and operated by the Georgia World Congress Center...
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    there from Centennial Olympic Stadium after the Olympic events concluded and the stadium was converted into Turner Field. 1996 Summer Olympics official...
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    continued to play at the stadium for another five years, then moved into Turner Field in 1997, the converted Centennial Olympic Stadium built for the previous...
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    Turner Field (category Atlanta Braves stadiums)
    built as Centennial Olympic Stadium in 1996 to serve as the centerpiece of the 1996 Summer Olympics, it was converted into a baseball stadium to serve...
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    Stadium Australia, commercially known as Accor Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium located in Sydney Olympic Park, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales...
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  • The 1996 United States Olympic trials for track and field were held at Centennial Olympic Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. This is the same venue as would...
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  • near Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, and the brand also acquired the naming rights to nearby Georgia State Stadium (the former Centennial Olympic Stadium)...
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    the 1996 Summer Olympics (since removed from the Centennial Olympic Stadium) in Atlanta, Georgia, United States; 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece;...
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  • 1996 Summer Paralympics (category 1996 Summer Olympics)
    were used at the 1996 Summer Olympics and five new venues were used at the Games in Atlanta. Centennial Olympic Stadium – opening/closing ceremonies,...
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  • culminated in the 1996 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, at midnight on July 19–20, 1996 in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Stadium. Four-time gold medal-winning...
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    bronze. There were few favorites in the event. The race started at an Olympic stadium and after 3 1/2 laps of the track they started on the out and back...
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  • Netherlands Olympisch Stadion (Antwerp), Belgium Olympic Stadium (Athens), Greece Centennial Olympic Stadium, Atlanta, United States Olympiastadion (Berlin)...
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  • Raed Ahmed (category Olympic weightlifters for Iraq)
    1967) is an Iraqi weightlifter. He represented Iraq at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he was the flagbearer during the opening ceremony. Raed...
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  • constructed, expanded, or retrofitted were Olympic Stadium (known locally at the time as Centennial Olympic Stadium), the Georgia International Horse Park...
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  • of stadiums that currently serve as the home venue for Football Bowl Subdivision college football teams. These include most of the largest stadiums in...
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  • reconstruction of the former Centennial Olympic Stadium, which originally served as the main venue for the 1996 Summer Olympics. November 20, 1996: John Smoltz...
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    Williams Olympic Fanfare (that "introduced" Team USA at the former Centennial Olympic Stadium and six years later at Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium). The march...
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    Palestine Olympic Committee. After forming an Olympic Committee in the 1930s but not competing to avoid Nazi persecution at the 1936 Olympic Games, the...
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    built as Centennial Olympic Stadium for the 1996 Summer Olympics, but was designed from the ground up to be converted into a baseball-only stadium after...
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    ability to provide Olympic-style sports programming. Turner Field, first used for the 1996 Summer Olympics as Centennial Olympic Stadium and then converted...
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    United States Olympic trials for the sport of track and field is the quadrennial meet to select the United States representatives at the Olympic Games. Since...
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  • the official results of the men's 100 metres event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. There were a total number of 106 participating athletes from...
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    baseball, basketball, and football stadiums—the latter built from the legacy of the defunct Centennial Olympic Stadium and Turner Field. The Tabernacle...
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