Àngel | Barcelona, EU | July 25th 2017
Avui fa 25 anys de la inauguració dels jocs olímpics de Barcelona
de 1992
- 25th anniversary of the Olympic and
Paralympic Games Barcelona 1992
- 25ème anniversaire des jeux olympiques et paralympiques de
Barcelone de 1992
- 25-jähriges Jubiläum der Olympischen und Paralympischen
Spiele von Barcelona 1992
25th
July 1992 - - 25th July 2017
· A quarter of a century
has passed since 1992.
· 25 years are exactly: 9.131
days. 1.304 weeks. 304 months. 219.144 hours.
Voluntaris Barcelona ‘92 dazzled the world
OLYMPIC VOLUNTEERS: AT THE START WE’RE 102.000
-We, the Olympic
Volunteers. We played an outstanding role in the well organization and
development of the Barcelona‘92 Summer Olympic Games.
Volunteering
Barcelona ‘92 was the real
McCoy
The Olympic Games and the Paralympics Games of Barcelona 1992 marked a
milestone in which the participation of Volunteers was an essential element for
success. Due to us, to the Volunteers, the
Barcelona’s Olympics were an absolute success.
The people of Barcelona got really involved in the Games
The Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games
created a great euphoria among the Catalan population, there was so much
enthusiasm for the Catalan Olympic Games that in 1986, six years before of the
Olympics, there were 102.000 citizens who had signed up to take part in the
Olympics as volunteers (YES, you do read well: 102.000). 76.000 of them were
aged under 23. This means that the Catalan young people were clearly for the
Olympics.
In the end after a process of
selection, 35.000 Volunteers excelled beyond the
call of duty, a number that went far beyond anything that had happened before.
Yep, I'd chalk it up to a great experience and what a wild ride it was. The
Barcelona's Olympics worked out really well, being us -volunteering 92- the
cornerstone of such a success. We were awesome Volunteers! More to the point,
the IOC president, Joan Antoni Samaranch in the closing speech said: “without
the work of the Barcelona'92 Volunteers these games wouldn't have been
possible”.
Barcelona
was chosen as the host of the 1992 summer Olympics in 1986
Before 1992, Barcelona had made three unsuccessful bids for the Olympic Games,
in 1924, 1936, and 1972. However, in this occasion the Capital of Catalonia was
awarded with the 1992 Summer Olympic Games. On 17th October 1986, during the
91st IOC Session the International Olympic Committee elected Barcelona as the
city for the 1992 Summer Olympic Games. After three voting Barcelona received
the highest number of votes. The IOC’s members cast 47 votes for Barcelona, 23
votes for Paris, 10 for Brisbane, and 5 votes for Belgrade.
Barcelona Olympic Games took place between
the 25th of July and the 9th of August 1992. A total of 9,364 athletes (6,652
men and 2,704 women) were to take part, from a record 169 countries.
In general, the people of Barcelona are more
interested in reading about sport than playing it
Barcelona
supports two daily newspapers devoted entirely to sports. EL MUNDO DEPORTIVO
and SPORT, though during the Olympic Games changed all this; those days
everybody seemed to be very sporty. Barcelona Football Club dominates spectator
sports in Catalonia, which in addition being one of the World top football club
leaded basketball, handball, hockey ice, roller hockey, athletics, rugby, and
volleyball teams, for a full Olympic calendar.
In the Barcelona
1992 Olympic Games was banned
smoking hence, they’ve been the first non-smoking Olympics Games in all its
history.
Some non-smoking zones at Olympic
village were: Bars - Restaurants – Kitchens – Olympic transport –
Public transport – Shops – Arcade - Games room – Sports centers – Customer
service – Staff who served athletes – Cinemas...
--- Sites and subsites ---
OLYMPIC
VENUES ’92
21 Olympic venues in Barcelona were grouped together in four large areas
There were two weeks
of madness: Between 25 July and 09 august Barcelona hosted the biggest Olympics
ever. A record of countries had entered, each with the cherished right to march
behind their flag in the inaugural parade. The training facilities and stadia
for the Olympics Games were grouped in four areas of the city: 1-Montjuïc 2-La
Diagonal 3-Vall d’Hebron 4-El Parc del Mar, all within a five kilometer radius
and a theoretically within 20 minutes travelling time of each other.
MONTJUÏC OLYMPIC STADIUM IN BARCELONA
The most well-known of these areas was
Montjuïc, as it was home to the most significant venues: The Olympic Stadium,
Palau Sant Jordi, INEFC, Bernat Picornell swimming pools, Montjuïc swimming
pool, Palau de la Metal·lúrgia, Palau d’Esports de Barcelona, Pavelló l'Espanya
Industrial, and Circuit de Cross and Pau Negre Stadium.
L'ESTADI OLÍMPIC DE MONTJUÏC BARCELONA
MONTJUÏC OLYMPIC STADIUM
The 1929 Montjuïc stadium has
survived three plans of it demolition. Now the Olympic stadium preserves the
façade of the old building, but architects lowered the level of the sports
track by ten meters in order to increase the capacity to seventy thousand spectators.
The stadium lies at the heart of the Olympic ring alongside the architectural
masterpiece of the games, Arata Isosaky’s Palau Sant Jordi.
LA DIAGONAL: The Diagonal
area. Venue based around the existing facilities of FC-Barcelona and el Reial Club
de Polo. The Barcelona Football Club’s stadium Camp Nou, was used for the top
football matches.
Àrea Vall d’Hebron, escultura dels mistos
VALL d’HEBRON: Vall d’Hebron
area, area sited in the north east of Barcelona. Area used for cycling, tennis
and volleyball. The sleek velodrome was built in 1984 for the World
Championships. Tennis benefited from the construction of a floodlit, 17-court
complex and volleyball of a new indoor sports center.
EL PARC DEL MAR- LA VILA OLÍMPICA
The Parc del Mar area, the
site of the Olympic village, was an old industrial district. Two skyscrapers in
the village are now the tallest buildings and landmarks in Barcelona; the most
striking of two is the Hotel Arts, a 400-room five-star hotel. The other one is
a dull office building.
At the Olympic Village during the
Olympics there was/were: a hall with regulation bowling alleys and American
pool tables. Two cinemas. All films were in original language. The games room
offered a variety of games: international known games, such as checkers and
chess. Games particular to the different countries and cultures represented at
the Olympics. Recreational games: showdown, shuffleboard, darts, videogames.
Discotheque, an open air space for entertainment, music and dancing. Disco
music. Performances by different national and International groups. Music bar:
family-like atmosphere and karaoke, beaches. Once the Olympic Games were over,
the Olympic village became a new district called Nova Icària, running
seamlessly into the equally new leisure areas of the Olympic Port, the seafront
parks and the new beaches. Because of the Barcelona’ 92 Olympic Games improves,
the beaches of Barcelona are now claimed to have some of the cleanest sands and
water of any in the Mediterranean, and some of the best safety facilities and
amenities.
OLYMPIC
SUBSITES
Canal Olímpic de Catalunya Castelldefels
Fifteen
secondary-venue hosted events as part of the Barcelona 92 Olympic Games
Apart from Barcelona, there were 15
Olympic subsites. Badalona, a few
kilometers up the coast, was the venue for basketball and boxing. Hockey was
played at Terrassa (40km) and
handball at Granollers (30km),
rowing competition took place at El llac de
Banyoles (135km). For the canoeing regattas, a new artificial canal was
built at Castelldefels, while the
wild water canoeing slalom went to El Parc del Segre in la Seu d’Urgell (150km). Mollet
del Valles was the venue for the shooting while baseball (made its debut as an
Olympic sport) took place at L’Hospitalet
de Llobregat and Viladecans, in the
suburbs. Reus (110km) Sant Sadurni d’Anoia (40km) and Vic (70km) were the venues for roller
hockey and demonstrations sports.
The Catalan IOC president in 1992,
Joan Antoni Samaranch, was a former roller hockey player and referee, so it
surprised no one when the sport was included in the Olympic programme. In the
Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games Basque pelota, Taekwondo and Roller hockey were
demonstration sports.
Viladecans:
baseball matches
Viladecans on the top of everything
is a reference in sport which offers top-of-the-range facilities including football
fields an Olympic baseball stadium and municipal sports center, in addition to
the outdoor activities which are a magnificent option enabled by the lie of the
land. Viladecans was where de baseball matches were held during the 1992
Olympic Games and it has an active sporty spirit whit a range of associations
enriches sport-related activities
Banyoles:
sports for all
Banyoles was the first sport
destination officially recognized by the Catalan govt. Now is a certified
location for the likes of mountain biking, swimming, rowing, and canoeing.
Banyoles is also a major venue for sport competitions and championships, with a
full calendar of events that have provided the town with an international
reputation since it hosted the rowing during Olympic Games in 1992
Venues
for football tournament
1 Barcelona. SITE: Barcelona
Football Club’s stadium Camp Nou
2 Sabadell. SUBSITE: Nova
Creu Alta stadium
3 Valencia. SUBSITE: Luís Casanova
football stadium
4 Zaragoza. SUBSITE: La
Romareda
stadium
THE OLYMPIC
FLAME
The Olympic
flame was lit in the Greek city of Olympia on 5 June 1992 and reached el Port d’Empúries, Catalonia
on 13 June being received by Catalan authorities.
From that moment onwards, the
Olympic torch followed a 39-day route through Spain's towns and cities,
travelling a total distance of over 6,000 km. 9,500 torch bearers took part.
Then, on the evening of 24
July, the flame reached Barcelona.
THE ARROW
The Olympic
flame at Montjuïc Olympic stadium in the opening ceremony wasn't lit by the
archer Antonio Rebollo. The Rebollo’s arrow was the
bait to lure viewers.
The Olympic flame made its entry into the
stadium carrying the torch Herminio Menéndez who
passed the flame to torch on FC Barcelona’s basketball player, Juan Antonio San Epifanio (Epi) who run
along the Olympic Stadium’s track and handed the flame to an archer named
Antonio Rebollo. He dart to the main cauldron located at the top of the stadium, all the
people saw how the arrow lit the flame and all the spectators who were at the
Olympic Stadium and those who were watching the opening ceremony on television
believed that an arrow shot by an archer lit the cauldron. But in fact, it did
not. That was cheating, the arrow only passed over cauldron getting lost far
away. What really lit the flame into cauldron was a synchronized timer device
which when the arrow pass over the cauldron lit natural gas. Now, 25 year on
from Olympics outset many people still believe that an arrow lit the Olympic
flame and hardy nobody knows the true.
MASCOTS WERE BY JAVIER
MARISCAL
Olympic Mascot: Cobi
Mariscal had a comic, in that
comic there was a family with a Catalan sheepdog. Mariscal gave human form to
that dog to create the Olympic mascot named, Cobi.
Paralympic Mascot: Petra
Mariscal also created the
Paralympic mascot, Petra. Petra is an armless girl.
THE DREAM TEAM
The name,
- The Dream Team- was created on January 18th 1991 by the American
Magazine Sports Illustrated.
Sports Illustrated nicknamed to the USA
basketball team for the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games as, The Dream Team. The
Dream Team was made up of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Charles
Barkley, Mullin, Stockton, Malone, Drexler, Pippen, Robinson, and Laettner. The
Dream Team beat all rivals by an average of 44 points and scoring an average of
117 points per match. They got Olympic gold beating Croatia, 127 – 80. Soon
afterward Catalan journalists steal The Dream Team name and nicknamed so to the
Football Club Barcelona.
F R I E N D
S - F O R - L I F E
Amics per sempre
AMICS PER SEMPRE - FRIENDS FOR
LIFE was the official anthem of the Olympic Games of Barcelona in 1992.
Don Black
wrote it and the music was composed by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. Josep
Carreras and Sarah Brightman performethe song at Montjuïc Olympic
stadium.
FRIENDS FOR LIFE, LYRICS
I don' have to say a word to
you
You seem to know whatever mood I'm going thru
Feel as though I've known you forever
You can look into my eyes and
see
The way I feel and how the world is treating me
Maybe I have known you forever
Amigos para siempre means
you'll always be my friend
Amics per sempre means a love that cannot end
Friends for life, not just a summer or a spring
Amigos para siempre
I feel you near me even when
we are a part
Just knowing you are in this world can warm my heart
Friends for life, not just a summer or a spring
Amigos para siempre
We shared memories I won't
forget
And we'll share more my friend we haven`t started yet
Something happens when we are together
When I look at you, I wonder
why
There has to come a time when we must say goodbye
I'm alive when we are together
Amigos para siempre means
you'll always be my friend
Amics per sempre means a love that cannot end
Friends for life, not just a summer or a spring
Amigos para siempre
I feel you near me even when
we are a part
Just knowing you are in this world can warm my heart
Friends for life, not just a summer or a spring
Amigos para siempre
When I look at you, I wonder
why
There has to come a time when we must say goodbye
I'm alive when we are together
Amigos para siempre means you'll always be my friend
Amics per sempre means a love that cannot end
Friends for life, not just a summer or a spring
Amigos para siempre
I feel you near me even when
we are a part
Just knowing you are in this world can warm my heart
Friends for life, not just a summer or a spring
Amigos para siempre.
ATHLOS
Derived from de Greek word Athlos (feat or contest), the triathlon
and modern pentathlon are two very complete sports that combine various
disciplines in one. Triathlons feature running swimming and cycling (Ironman
competitions are an extreme version of this sport).
The modern pentathlon, on the one
hand, comprises five events: fencing, swimming, pistol shooting, cross-country
running and show jumping, and is a symbol of the Olympic movement, from which
the symbol of the five interlocked rings draws its inspiration.
Barcelona 1992 Olympic games medals
The Spanish Olympic team won twenty-two medals in Barcelona’ 92 Olympics. 13
gold medals. 7 silver medals and 2 bronze medals. One of the gold medals won
was in football. The football final held at Camp Nou was Spain VS Poland. In 1992,
one of the Spanish Olympic footballers was Pep Guardiola; born in Santpedor, Catalonia-
on January 18th 1971. Afterwards he became FC-Barcelona coach.
Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games
top medal nations table
GOLD – SILVER – BRONZE = TOTAL
Thirteen gold, seven silver
and two bronze medals were won by Spain at Barcelona ’92 Olympics, placing it
sixth in the medal table
01. Unified Team (former Soviet Union): 45-38-29= 112
02. The United States: 37-34-27= 108
03. Germany: 33-21-28= 82
04. China: 16-22-16= 54
05. Cuba: 14-6-11= 31
06. Spain: 13-7-2= 22
07. South Korea: 12-5-12= 29
08. Hungary: 11-12-7= 30
09. France: 8-5-16= 29
10. Australia: 7-8-11= 27
11. Canada: 7-4-7= 18
12. Italy: 6-5-8=19
13. United Kingdom: 5-3-12= 20
14. Rumania: 4-6-8= 18
15. Checoslovaquie: 4-2-1= 7
16. North Korea: 4-0-5= 9
17. Japan: 3-8-11= 22
18. Bulgaria: 3-7-6= 16
19. Poland: 3-6-10= 10
20. Nederland 2-6-7= 15
Joan Antoni Samaranch
The Catalan
president of the International Olympic committee in 1992, died in Barcelona on April
21st 2010 aged 89 of cardiac arrest. Samaranch born in Barcelona in 1920, he
was the seventh President of the IOC leading it for 21 years from 1980 to 2001.
