United States of America Seoul Olympic Dollar 1988 D BU Silver Dollar 38.1mm (26.61 grams) 0.900 Silver (0.7734 oz. ASW) Denver mint Reference: KM# 222 | Engraver: Patricia Lewis Verani OLYMPIAD IN GOD 1988 WE TRUST D LIBERTY, One hand holding the Statue of Liberty’s torch and the other holding an Olympic torch, with the two flames merging together with olive branches around. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1 DOLLAR U S A E PLURIBUS UNUM, The Olympic rings appear centrally with “USA” above and another pair of olive branches.
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The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad and commonly known as Seoul 1988, was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. 159 nations were represented at the games by a total of 8,391 athletes (6,197 men and 2,194 women). 237 events were held and 27,221 volunteers helped to prepare the Olympics.
The 1988 Seoul Olympics is the second summer Olympic Games held in Asia. South Korea ranked fourth overall, winning 12 gold medals and 33 medals in the competition. 11,331 media (4,978 written press and 6,353 broadcasters) showed the Games all over the world. These were the last Olympic Games of the Cold War, as well as for the Soviet Union and East Germany, as both ceased to exist before the next Olympic Games in 1992. The Soviet Union utterly dominated the medal count, winning 55 gold and 132 total medals. No nation has repeated this result since 1988.
Compared to the 1980 Summer Olympics (Moscow) and the 1984 Summer Olympics (Los Angeles), which were divided into two camps by ideology, the 1988 Seoul Olympics was a competition in which the boycotts virtually disappeared, although they were not completely over. North Korea boycotted the 1988 Seoul Olympics, as well as five socialist countries including Cuba, an ally of North Korea. Albania, Ethiopia, and Seychelles did not respond to the invitation sent by the IOC.
Nicaragua did not participate due to athletic and financial considerations. The participation of Madagascar had been expected, and their team was expected at the opening ceremony of 160 nations; however, the country withdrew for financial reasons. Nonetheless, the much larger boycotts seen in the 1976, 1980 and 1984 Olympics were avoided, resulting in the largest number of participating nations during the Cold War era. Except for seven countries, all countries around the world participated, marking the Seoul Olympics as a symbolic event that laid the groundwork for the end of the Cold War. The history of the Olympic boycotts ended completely at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics four years later.
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