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About this World-Wide Web Server

The Atlanta Olympic Games Official World Wide Web Server provides live Olympic results, competition information, athletes and teams data, news, commentaries, photographs, video, interviews and much more, updated in real time and extracted directly from the IBM Systems that run the Games. This content is served from IBM's WOMPLEX.

Created by the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) -- the organization responsible for planning and staging the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games to be held in Atlanta, Georgia from 19 July 1996 through 4 August 1996 -- and IBM, this web server guarantees to its users the most comprehensive, accurate and timely repository of information on the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.

Presented in a fully interactive way and making use of the latest Web technologies, the site's content is easily accessible, virtually taking Olympic fans from around the world to the heart of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games.

Olympic fans worldwide have access to:

Olympic emblems, symbols and terminology are included for information purposes only. Using, reproducing, modifying or commingling these trademarks without the written permission of ACOG, the United States Olympic Committee or the International Olympic Committee is prohibited by law.

IBM -- a Worldwide Sponsor of the Olympic Games -- is the Official Internet Information Systems Provider for ACOG.

A variety of IBM organizations and their products and technologies make this Web Server possible. Those include:

Creative development, web-page design, and real-time, onsite graphic support by C3 Incorporated, a NY-based firm specializing in image management across print and electronic media.

The following partners are mirror sites:

In addition, content partners for this Web Server include:
Images are provided courtesy of Agence France-Presse and are part of their Olympic Report, which provides continuous photo and text coverage of the Atlanta Games.
Allsport International Sports Agency, Official Photographers to the Worldwide Olympic Sponsor Programme 1996, are providing images from their Olympic web site, which provides photo coverage of the 1996 Games.
CBC logo Video provided courtesy of CBC: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Map ©1996 NGS Cartographic Division. Developed in association with GeoSystems Global Corp.
Video provided courtesy of NBC.
Copyright ©1996 The National Broadcasting Company, All Rights Reserved.
Rede Globo de Televisao, Brazil
Video, Copyright © 1996
Scientific-Atlanta Sneak Peek Cam images delivered to this Web Site through SCARLET the Broadband Video Network created by Scientific Atlanta for the Olympic Games.
Shockwave animations courtesy of Olympic Gold, a comprehensive multimedia CD-ROM published by S.E.A. Multimedia and distributed by Discovery Channel Multimedia.
SI Online, the online home of Worldwide Olympic sponsor Sports Illustrated, features the magazine's distinctive voice and dramatic photography. SI Online is providing selections from its comprehensive online Olympic coverage including athlete profiles, feature stories and daily reports from the Games.
SWATCH Photo Finish images provided courtesy of SWATCH.
WGST: Olympic Update Reports Atlanta's Official Olympic Information Radio Station
WXIA-TV, Atlanta’s Official Television Station for the Olympic Games, is providing select broadcast clips from their news programs, which air Monday through Friday, 5:30-5:45 a.m. and again at 6:30-6:45 a.m., as well as Saturdays between 7:30-7:45 a.m.
ZDF German TV
Video, Copyright © 1996


Olympic Factoid
Pin trading was one of the most popular Olympic sports, with more than 1.2 million pins changing hands during the Games in the Coca Cola Pin Trading Center at Centennial Olympic Park.