Seoul Olympics
September 17, 1988
The Games brought a newly democratic South Korea onto the world stage, showcased its economic miracle, and marked an end to the boycotts that had diminished the previous three Olympics. Ben Johnson won the hundred-meter dash and lost it three days later to a positive drug test. The age of pharmacological scandal had arrived.
In context
Also in 1988 (4 other events on record)
- Iran-Iraq War ends · Middle East · War
- Lockerbie bombing · Europe · War
- Geneva Accords on Afghanistan · Central Asia · Politics
- Armenian earthquake · Central Asia · Disaster
Before and after in East Asia
Before and after in Culture
Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.