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The 2004 Summer Olympic Games (officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad) closing ceremony included performances of various Greek singers, and featured traditional Greek dance performances.

The opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympic games took place in Stadium Australia, it began with a tribute to the heritage of the Australian Stock Horse, with the arrival of a lone rider.

At the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta two people died as a result of a bombing, and more than 100 others were injured.

Gladys Knight sang "Georgia on My Mind", Georgia's official state song, at the opening ceremony for the 1996 Summer Olympics.

The games hosted 9,356 athletes from 169 nations.

President George Bush, on Air Force One, slammed Roseanne Barr's National Anthem performance as "disgraceful", as she ended it by appearing to spit on the floor.

Ted Turner's Goodwill Games conceived as an apolitical alternative to the Olympics, the games promise international goodwill through competition take place in Washington state.

21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal, African teams boycott as a protest to New Zealand playing rugby in apartheid South Africa.

The 1972 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad was from August 26 to September 11, the games were overshadowed by the Black September terrorists attack on the Israeli Olympic team.