1996 Olympic Track & Field Tickets

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Four 1996 Olympic Track & Field Tickets. Shipped with USPS First Class. Free shipping. Good condition with a couple of imperfections.
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July 26
Track and field, the showcase sport of the Olympic Games, began today with seemingly sleeping Americans awakening in time to grab the gold and silver medals in the men's shot-put. On the last of his six attempts, Randy Barnes won the gold medal with one prodigious put of 70 feet 11 1/4 inches. One round before, John Godina had exploded for 68-2 1/2 that held up for the silver.
Barnes's dramatic victory culminated 15 hours of running, walking, jumping, throwing and trying to beat traffic jams. In the morning session, there were 80,237 in the stands, almost all of them in place by 9:20 A.M. when Jefferson Perez, a 22-year-old Ecuadorean, won the men's 20-kilometer walk.
The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a domestic terrorist pipe bombing attack on Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 27, 1996, during the Summer Olympics. The blast directly killed one person and injured 111 others; another person later died of a heart attack. It was the first of four bombings committed by Eric Rudolph.[1] Security guard Richard Jewell discovered the bomb before detonation and began clearing spectators out of the park.
July 27
With Joyner-Kersee sidelined, the United States still had triumphs to celebrate. On the night that Gail Devers successfully defended her gold medal in the 100 meters, Harrison unleashed the third- and fourth-longest triple jumps in history -- 59 feet 1/4 inch and then 59-4 1/4. Both broke the Olympic and American records, and Harrison also broke Jonathan Edwards's 21-meet winning streak.
Edwards, a Briton who holds the world record of 60- 1/4, finished second here with 58-8. Yoelbi Quesada of Cuba won the bronze medal with 57-2 3/4, just beating Mike Conley (57-1), the longtime American star.
In another final, Heli Rantanen of Finland, who had never won an Olympic or world championship medal, did this time by throwing the women's javelin 222-11. Louise McPaul of Australia finished second with 215-0. The bronze went to Trine Hattestad of Norway with 213-2.
July 28
On his last attempt in the hammer throw, Lance Deal of Eugene, Ore., went from eighth place to a silver medal with a throw of 266 feet 2 inches. After a career grounded by a knee injury for the past five years, Charles Austin of Bay City, Tex., made a risky pass following two misses at 7-9 1/4 in the high jump, had the bar raised and won at 7-10 as energy from the throbbing crowd of 81,000 seemed to carry him over the bar.
While the heptathlon went on for the first time without Jackie Joyner-Kersee, who withdrew with injury after winning two golds and a silver at past Summer Games, Syria collected its first Olympic gold medal ever as Ghada Shouaa took the seven-event competition.
The mysterious career of the Chinese distance runner Wang Junxia, who delivered startling and suspicious world-record performances at 3,000 meters and 10,000 meters in 1993, was impressively resurrected tonight as she won the inaugural Olympic 5,000-meter race.
Fatuma Roba of Ethiopia became the first African woman to win an Olympic marathon.
July 29
The math was simple last night. Half of two possible doubles were complete, and one record-setting career was, too. Michael Johnson easily won the 400-meter gold and remains on course to become the first man to win the 200 and 400 races in one Olympics. But on this night, he shared the spotlight with Carl Lewis, who won his ninth gold medal and fourth straight Olympic title in the long jump. Marie-Jose Perec, a Frenchwoman, won the 400-meter gold in Olympic record time, while Svetlana Masterkova of Russia won the the women's 800 meters. Haile Gabrselassie won the last gold of the night by winning the 10,000 in Olympic record time, the first leg of a possible double in the 5,000